Twitch platform has updated its "Spam, Scams and Malicious Conduct" Policy and began to prohibit the spread of malicious information by service users. The official statement was published on the service's blog.
As it says in the statement, this update will not enforce one-off statements containing misinformation. The service has assembled a team of experts who will block users' accounts based on the following criteria: (1) persistently sharing (2) widely disproven and broadly shared (3) harmful misinformation topics, such as conspiracies that promote violence. Twitch will only enforce against actors who meet all three of these criteria.
According to New York Times reporter Kellen Browning, minutes after the new policy took effect, two Twitch streamers were banned: ToreSays (urging viewers to overturn the 2020 presidential U.S. election) and RedPill78 (spreading QAnon conspiracy theories and encouraging people to drink bleach).
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