Twitch has started legal action against seven sellers of "view-bot" services, which are employed to artificially increase important metrics like view counts, follower counts and general chat activity.

The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Twitch has filed a ...

Twitch has just about had it with bots that artificially inflate view counts for videos. In fact, it’s taking the makers of such bots to court. In a post published to the Twitch Blog on Friday, ...

Twitch has won a key victory in its ongoing campaign against illegal bots. The firm has been awarded over $1.37m after a California judge ruled in its favour, Kotaku reports. The case was agains the ...

Twitch has discovered over 7.5 million bot accounts that have been inflating streamer stats, the Amazon-owned company tweeted. It has now started removing those accounts and warned users that "you may ...

Users of social media sites bulk-buying fake and bot followers to make themselves appear more popular is nothing new. The practice is a common one on the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the world of streaming entertainment, viewership is very important. For The Attack's Kevin ...

Viewership on Twitch is declining as the platform targets streamers using bots, but the platform disputes a ‘free fall’ in its numbers. However, over the past few months there’s been reports of a ...

Oscar Gonzalez is a Texas native who covered video games, conspiracy theories, misinformation and cryptocurrency. Bots are a known issue for Twitch, Amazon's video game streaming platform. Improved ...