Twitch updates policy to stop misinformation going viral on platform Caspar Camille RubinIn a bid to stamp out viral misinformation on their platform, Twitch updated its Community Guidelines to prohibit \u201cHarmful Misinformation Actors\u201d from using their services. Online platforms have put in increasing measures to try and tackle rampant misinformation from going viral. Services like Spotify and TikTok have ramped up efforts to stamp out misinformation; the former added new disclaimer messages to controversial podcast episodes, while the latter did the same in the form of video banners. On March 4, Twitch announced they\u2019d joined the fray too after revealing they\u2019d updated their Community Guidelines to prohibit what they described as \u201cHarmful Misinformation Actors\u201d from using their services. \u201cIn order to reduce harm to our community and the public without undermining our streamers\u2019 open dialogue with their communities, we prohibit harmful misinformation superspreaders who persistently share misinformation,\u201d the company stated. \u201cWe seek to remove users whose online presence is dedicated to persistently sharing widely disproven and broadly shared harmful misinformation topics.\u201d The key word is persistent. It will not apply to individual statements and discussions, with the company stressing regular content creators won\u2019t be affected. Twitch revealed the decision was brought about after partnering with \u201cover a dozen researchers and experts\u201d to understand how harmful misinformation spreads online and how to nip it in the bud on their platform. However, they assured users they\u2019ll only enforce against those who persistently share widely disproven and broadly shared harmful misinformation topics \u2014 which will be reviewed by a dedicated team on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitch updates policy to stop misinformation going viral on platform Caspar Camille RubinIn a bid to stamp out viral misinformation on their platform, Twitch updated its Community Guidelines to prohibit \u201cHarmful Misinformation Actors\u201d from using their services. Online platforms have put in increasing measures to try and tackle rampant misinformation from going viral. Services like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}