{"id":365435,"date":"2025-10-25T17:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2169834"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:12:29","slug":"twitch-officially-unveils-new-verification-tools-to-tackle-hate-raiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/twitch-officially-unveils-new-verification-tools-to-tackle-hate-raiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitch officially unveils new verification tools to tackle hate raiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/twitch-officially-unveils-new-verification-tools-to-tackle-hate-raiding.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-27-twitch-reporting-launching-new-security-tools-to-combat-hate-raiding\">earlier this week<\/a>, Twitch has officially unveiled a new suite of verification-based tools intended to help combat the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of hate raiding.<\/p>\n<p>Twitch&#8217;s controversial raid feature was originally designed to be an easy way for streamers to share audiences by enabling them to redirect all viewers currently watching their broadcast to a target channel. Unfortunately, malicious users quickly began exploiting the feature, setting up dummy accounts and bots to flood the chats of often marginalised streamers and subject them to doxing, harassment, and attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-29-twitch-officially-unveils-new-verification-tools-to-tackle-hate-raiding\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-09-29-twitch-officially-unveils-new-verification-tools-to-tackle-hate-raiding\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following reports earlier this week, Twitch has officially unveiled a new suite of verification-based tools intended to help combat the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of hate raiding. Twitch&#8217;s controversial raid feature was originally designed to be an easy way for streamers to share audiences by enabling them to redirect all viewers currently watching their broadcast to a target channel. Unfortunately, malicious users quickly began exploiting the feature, setting up dummy accounts and bots to flood the chats of often marginalised streamers and subject them to doxing, harassment, and attack. 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