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Twitch has added a misinformation clause to its current spam, scams, and malicious content policies in a recent policy update. According to the post, the streaming platform is revising its policy to “prohibit harmful misinformation actors from using our services.”

The majority of Twitch streamers will be unaffected by this policy change, according to Twitch. Instead, the new harmful misinformation regulation is aimed at people who intentionally and repeatedly share potentially damaging or inaccurate information on Twitch. The platform claimed to have collaborated with dozens of researchers and specialists on the topic of misinformation to develop a three-pronged evaluation process. 

Users must have a history of continuously disseminating disinformation on widely disproven and frequently shared misinformation themes in order to be labeled as harmful misinformation spreaders. Twitch cited “conspiracies that promote violence” as an example of a largely disproven and potentially harmful issue to demonstrate this point. 

Twitch made it clear that in order to be designated a harmful disinformation actor, users must match all three of these criteria. Twitch’s Off-Service investigations team will do reviews on each case of potential misinformation spreading, according to Twitch’s post. The platform’s Off-Service investigations team will conduct reviews on each case of potential disinformation spreading, according to Twitch’s post. 

While harmful misinformation is “not currently prevalent” on Twitch’s platform, the team is always evolving and seeking new ways to ensure safety both on and off the website, the site said it chose its given criteria because “together they create the highest risk of harm, including inciting real world harm.”