Twitch filed a lawsuit late last week against two people on its own platform for running automated hate and harassment campaigns.
The harassment, often targeted at Black and LGBTQ streamers, manifests in a unique Twitch phenomenon as a “hate raid.” On Twitch, creators regularly point viewers toward another friendly account after their stream concludes to boost their audiences, a practice known as a “raid.” Hate raids invert that formula, sending swarms of bots to harass streamers who have inadequate tools at their disposal to block the influx of abuse.
The hate raids leverage Twitch’s new tagging system, which many transgender users had requested to make it easier to build