Buzzfeed News reports.Twitch accused the users, whose real names are currently unknown, of evading its attempts to ban them from the platform and said they had “seriously harmed and will continue to harm the Twitch community.”The so-called “hate raids” allegedly conducted by the users involved engineering bots to target LGBTQ streamers and streamers of color, filling their live chats with abusive messages.
As well as racist and anti-LGBTQ language, a number of streamers had their personal information leaked, including names and addresses.Twitch said in its lawsuit that CruzzControl, who is based in the Netherlands, conducted a number of hate raids “including those targeting black and LGBTQIA+ streamers with racist, homophobic, sexist and.