Twitch has launched a Suspicious User Detection tool to help safeguard streamers and their chat from abuse.
The tool comes in the wake of hate raids and harassment on the platform, particularly for streamers from marginalised communities.
It aims to catch users evading channel-level bans, powered by machine learning, by highlighting potentially suspicious activity in chat.
“When you ban someone from your channel, they should be banned from your community for good. Unfortunately, bad actors often choose to create new accounts, jump back into Chat, and continue their abusive behaviour. Suspicious User Detection, powered by machine learning, is here to help you identify those users based on a number of account signals,” explains a blog post by Twitch.