Live-streaming platform Twitch is reportedly instituting stricter bans on “misinformation,” including supposed COVID-19 “misinformation.”
Amazon-owned Twitch is banning “’harmful misinformation superspreaders who persistently share misinformation on or off of Twitch,’” The New York Times reported. This will include not only Russian state media but those who spread alleged “misinformation” about COVID-19 vaccines and election fraud, among other topics, The New York Times wrote. Twitch already has some channels cut for COVID-19 or election-fraud-related content. According to The Times.
The policy will apply to “harmful misinformation that has been widely debunked” and consistently shared, supposedly “‘inciting real-world harm,’” The Times reported. Twitch has allegedly seen an increase in “misinformation” since 2020 and is reportedly trying to “get ahead” of so-called “misinformation” with the new policy. Yet government entities admitted they were wrong about things formerly dubbed “misinformation” earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the Wuhan laboratory leak theory of COVID-19’s origins. The so-called “misinformation” of today may be widely acknowledged as fact tomorrow.
The Times wrote, “Misinformation covered by the new policy includes content related to dangerous medical treatments, lies about Covid-19 vaccines, falsehoods ‘promoted by conspiracy networks tied to violence,’ content that ‘undermines the integrity of a civic or political process’ — including lies about election fraud — and content that could harm people during emergencies like wildfires and shootings.” The TimesThe policy also applies to Russian media controlled by the Russian government.
Twitch used to have a policy which allowed suspension of users accused of crimes including hate group membership or violent extremism. Twitch also previously named a transgender streamer who identified as a deer to its “Safety Advisory Council.”
Twitch is home to approximately 31,000,000 daily viewers and 8 million monthly broadcasters. Much of Twitch’s content is video game-related, according To The Times.
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