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Twitch lays off more than 400 employees as Amazon cuts another 9,000 jobs
Twitch lays off hundreds amid Amazon cuts
Four hundred of the 9,000 laid off workers were from the streaming platform
Streamer who incited Twitch deepfake porn scandal returns
Atrioc says deepfakes are ‘a much bigger problem than I was aware of’
Twitch CEO Emmett Shear Is Stepping Down After 16 Years
Emmett Shear resigns as Twitch CEO after 16 years
Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear steps down as CEO
After 16 years with Twitch, company co-founder Emmett Shear is stepping down from his role as CEO. Shear was there at the beginning, when the popular entertainment platform was still called Justin.tv, a live video site designed to host a 24/7 reality show about the life of co-founder Justin Kan. When the company spun the platform’s growing gaming category into its own brand, Twitch was born. Shear shepherded the company through that transition, through Amazon’s $970 million acquisition of the company in 2014, and beyond. Now, he says he says fatherhood has inspired him to step down from his leadership role. “I want to be fully there for my son as he enters this world,” he wrote in a farewell blog. “I will continue to work at Twitch in an advisory role.”
In October 2006 we started working on live video for the internet. That became Twitch. More than 16 years later, I’m now a father and ready to move to my next phase of life. I wrote a blog post, but the short version is: thank you so much to everyone who built this with me.
— Emmett Shear (@eshear) March 16, 2023
Dan Clancy will be taking over as CEO. Originally hired in 2019 as the executive VP of creator and community experience, Clancy soon rose to the role of President at Twitch. When streaming partners raised concerns over Twitch’s revenue split with creators, Clancy was the one who put the issue to bed — explaining in a letter to streamers that the share would remain at 50/50 and premium 70/30 splits given to the platforms biggest stars would be subject to new limitations. As the face of this decision, Clancy bore the brunt of much of the backlash.
As for Shear, his exit letter exudes confidence for the new CEO. “He cares deeply about the Twitch community, its streamers and our staff and understands what makes Twitch, Twitch,” he wrote. Dan Clancy will step into his role as CEO effective immediately.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/twitch-co-founder-emmett-shear-steps-down-as-ceo-181041275.html?src=rss
Gerard Piqué Calls Out Mainstream Soccer for Being ‘Scared’ of His Twitch Soccer League
Former FC Barcelona soccer player Gerard Piqué unveiled a huge banner in Barcelona on Friday throwing shade at mainstream soccer for being “scared” of his new Twitch soccer league, the Kings League, and its upcoming final at the famed Camp Nou stadium.
Twitch Is Taking Action On Deepfake Porn
Twitch has finally released a statement about deepfake pornography after an incident in January involving multiple high-profile streamers. The company has vowed to take immediate action, which includes a change to the platform’s policy, consulting with an online safety expert, and a Creator Camp to help streamers protect themselves.
The blog post says that although deepfake porn isn’t a problem on Twitch, which has pre-existing guidelines banning explicit content, it is an issue that affects mostly female streamers who use or are partnered with the platform. “Though we have the most control over what happens on our own service, we want to help streamers protect themselves or respond quickly to this kind of situation anywhere it arises,” the statement from Twitch reads.
To that end, Twitch is updating its policies to include harsher penalties for anyone on its platform caught promoting, creating, or sharing this kind of imagery. The policy update includes a new term for what is generally known as “deepfake porn,” with Twitch labelling it “synthetic non-consensual exploitative images” or “synthetic NCEI” for short. Twitch explains that the term “pornography” is inappropriate, as porn should refer to consensual acts undertaken by willing performers, while “synthetic images” is used to make sure the policy covers the breadth of techniques that could be used to create non-consensual imagery.
Twitch says deepfake porn is now grounds for instaban — here’s why
It’s been five full years since most online platforms made it crystal clear that face-swapped porn is not okay — but not Twitch, apparently. Today, in a blog post titled “Addressing Explicit Deepfake Content,” the livestreaming service now says that synthetic non-consensual exploitative images (NCEI) will not be tolerated.
Even a brief unintentional glimpse at those sorts of images “will be removed and will result in an enforcement,” the company writes. And if you intentionally promote, create, or share deepfake porn, that’s grounds for an instaban: doing that “can result in an indefinite suspension on the first offense.”
The company isn’t doing this on a whim — as BuzzFeed News and NBC News reported last month, Twitch recently had its…