Twitch are suing two users for leading "hate raids" - Rock Paper Shotgun

Twitch, the livestreaming platform, are suing two users for allegedly organising "hate raids" against streamers.

The complaint says that Twitch immediately took steps to ban both users and their network of accounts, but that the defendants were "undeterred." CruzzControl is alleged to be "responsible for nearly 3,000 bot accounts associated with hate raids.".

The full complaint, which was filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, also alleges that the hate raids "were, in some cases, directed to streamers who identified themselves as racial minorities and/or members of the LGBTQ+ community," and that they were organised via "the 'hate raiding community' through other gaming-related social media platforms" such as Discord and Steam.

Twitch are seeking for the users to be legally barred from continuing to use Twitch, but also an award "of restitution and damages." Twitch say that they've expended substantial resources in attempting to investigate and stop the hate raids, including "implementing stricter identity controls with accounts, machine learning algorithms to detect bot accounts that are used to engage in harmful chat and augmenting the banned word list.".