Twitch: This is how the live streaming platform wants to take action against grooming in the future

A more detailed one was published at the end of September Bloomberg report via the live streaming site Twitch. Bloomberg author Cecilia D’Anastasio revealed a two-year study that shows how easy it is for anyone to open a Twitch account, broadcast themselves live on the internet, and easily become the target of sex offenders as a teenager or child.

With around 140 million active users per month, it is difficult to check whether shady characters are contacting young users. Despite this, Twitch officials have not had a plan for how to tackle the problem. had in the past few months the live streaming platform to fight with several sources of fire. in one Blog post of 11/22/2022 the people from Twitch have now presented the measures that they want to enforce in the future against the targeted initiation of sexual contacts with minors.

Twitch’s plan to fight online grooming

• Account creation for under 13-year-olds should be made more difficult.
  Expanding the methods used to detect and delete accounts of users under the age of 13 and prevent users who were previously banned for being underage from creating new accounts.
• Verification by phone
  Introducing mandatory phone verification before potentially compromised accounts can live stream to better prevent users under the age of 13 who created accounts with incorrect age information from going live and putting themselves at risk before we’re able to verify their account identify and delete.
• Greater moderation focus on under 13 streamers
  We continue to refine the moderation technology our staff uses to review certain user reports to ensure that all reported cases involving children under the age of 13 are prioritized and addressed quickly.

How much Twitch action against possible sex offenders?

• We’ve updated the default privacy settings for our direct messaging feature, Whispers, and blocked the ability to use specific search terms or phrases to find content on Twitch.
• We have continued to deepen our collaboration with expert organizations that report to us on Twitch behavior and grooming trends in the industry to further expand our global capacity to proactively monitor these behaviors.
• We recently completed the months-long process of acquiring Spirit AI, an industry-leading speech-processing AI specialist, who will help us develop more sophisticated classifiers to detect damage of all kinds in written text on Twitch.