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Hate Raids on Twitch: Echoes of the Past, New Modalities, and Implications for Platform Governance. (arXiv:2301.03946v1 [cs.CY])
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In the summer of 2021, users on the livestreaming platform Twitch were
targeted by a wave of "hate raids," a form of attack that overwhelms a
streamer's chatroom with hateful messages, often through the use of bots and
automation. Using a mixed-methods approach, we combine a quantitative
measurement of attacks across the platform with interviews of streamers and
third-party bot developers. We present evidence that confirms that some hate
raids were highly-targeted, hate-driven attacks, but we also observe another
mode …
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