Operating under the umbrella of Amazon, Twitch is one of the most popular live broadcasting platforms in the world, being used by millions of people. So much so that people of all ages, from seventy to seventy, open live broadcasts or watch broadcasts on this platform. However, the use of Twitch can also cause some negative situations. One of them is child abuse on the platform.
A report shared by Bloomberg a few months ago revealed that there was a frightening situation on Twitch, which is very popular with children and teenagers. A study showed that many child abuses were encountered on the live broadcast platform and that the abusers forced children to participate in the broadcasts and make inappropriate actions. It was also included in the report that approximately 280,000 children were targeted in the last two years. After that, a statement came from Twitch and it was stated that the measures were taken. Now it has been announced that new updates have been made in this regard.
Phone number verification is coming to open live broadcast
Updating the previously shared blog post, Twitch announced its new measures against abusers, stating that it will protect children from malicious people on the platform and that these people will never be allowed. Twitch, which wants to prevent accounts under the age of 13 from being included in the platform to protect children, stated that its new moves are to strengthen this.
According to the statements of the platform owned by Amazon, phone number verification will now be required to start a live broadcast. Twitch stated that this move will prevent users under the age of 13 from putting themselves at risk. It was also reported that steps were taken to prevent people under the age of 13 from opening new accounts, who were previously blocked. It has also been added that improvements have been made to the ‘moderation technology’, which prevents Twitch staff from seeing certain user complaints and quickly detecting events of interest to young children and preventing such events from happening.
Twitch also stated that it updated the default privacy settings for its messaging feature Whispers and blocked certain search terms or words used to find content on the platform. Stating that it has deepened its cooperation with specialist organizations for security, the platform added that it has completed the acquisition of artificial intelligence company Spirit AI, which can support it in discovering all kinds of harmful content in texts. With this technology, inappropriate words on the platform will be detected and negative situations will be tried to be prevented.
It is also possible to say that Twitch is a little behind in this regard. Competing social media platforms already use multiple age verification systems. We will see in the future whether the popular platform can prevent this controversial situation with its new updates.
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