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Mar 20 2023
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Twitch sacks hundreds of workers days after CEO departure
Twitch, the Amazon-owned streaming platform that has turned gamers and internet commentators into legitimate stars and helped mainstream gaming culture, is laying off 400 workers in the weeks to come — yet another casualty in San Francisco’s tech industry. The live streamer’s layoffs are part of a second round of layoffs at Amazon within the past six months, affecting 9,000 workers across the
SFGATE
Jun 28 2022
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The trans Twitch star delivering news to a legion of LGBTQ teens
For over a year after she first joined Twitch, Clara Sorrenti used the streaming platform like most of its users: to broadcast herself playing video games for a handful of viewers.
But when Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, launched a campaign against gender-affirming care for young people, it struck a nerve with Sorrenti, who transitioned as a teenager. The 28-year-old
Washington Post
Aug 25 2022
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Trans Twitch streamer Keffals forced to flee country in wake of death threats and abuse
Trans Twitch streamer Keffals is planning to move to a different country after online harassers leaked her personal details.
Keffals, real name Clara Sorrenti, told Global News she plans to leave the country for her own safety after constant attacks by online harassers including a swatting incident on 5 August.
Swatting refers to an act of online harassment in which the harasser
PinkNews
Jan 07 2021
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Twitch disables Trump's channel following chaos in D.C.
Twitch, the Amazon-owned live video streaming platform, disabled President Trump's account, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios on Thursday.
Why it matters: It's the latest in a string of platform efforts to take action on Trump's accounts following his calls for violence that resulted in the historic riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
Snapchat was the first to disable the
Axios
Jun 29 2020
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Jeff Bezos' Twitch temporarily bans Trump for 'hateful conduct'
Twitch, a streaming platform owned by Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos, has temporarily banned President Trump’s account for “hateful conduct” stemming from footage of the president’s speeches.
“Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch. In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content
Fox News (Online News)
Nov 28 2022
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Buffalo shooting gunman pleads guilty to murder and hate crime charges
A white gunman who targeted a grocery in Buffalo, New York, because it was the city with the most Black residents in closest proximity to his home, will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to murder and hate crime charges in the May 14 shooting at Tops Friendly Market.
Thirteen people, including 11 Black people and two white people, were shot in the massacre,
NBC News (Online)
Sep 15 2022
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The End of Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Most Notorious Stalker Site
ON THE MORNING of August 5, in London, Ontario, police put an assault rifle in Clara Sorrenti’s face. Sorrenti is a trans activist and Twitch streamer who provides political commentary under the handle Keffals. Earlier that morning, an impersonator had sent an email to city councillors claiming that Sorrenti had killed her mother and would soon go to City Hall to shoot every cisgender person
Wired
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Hasan Piker
About Hasan Piker Hasan Piker is a Turkish-American leftist political commentator and Twitch streamer. Piker's Twitch channel, Hasanabi, had over 2 million followers as of April 2022, and his near-daily streams often reach over 30,000 live viewers. Piker's Twitch channel temporarily became the most popular on the platform during the 2020 election.
Jul 14 2022
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Buffalo mass shooting suspect indicted on federal hate, firearms charges
The man accused of shooting dead 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, on May 14 has been indicted on 27 federal hate crimes and firearms offenses, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday.
The indictment returned by a federal grand jury tacks on an additional hate crime count against Payton Gendron, 19, in a criminal complaint filed last month. He is now
Reuters
May 24 2022
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A $280 billion investment fund wants to boot all of Meta and Twitter's directors over their handling of the Buffalo shooting
A $280 billion fund invested in Meta and Twitter wants to boot every director from each company's board over failures relating to how hateful content was policed in the wake of the Buffalo mass shooting.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, trustee of the New York State Common Retirement Fund, said in regulatory filings Monday that his fund will vote against re-electing all
Insider