"We at Twitch are well aware that view-bots, follow-bots, and chat-impersonation bots are a persistent frustration," the company's marketing VP Matthew DiPietro wrote in a blog post The defendants ...

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 ...

There’s an open secret among users of Twitch, the Amazon-owned video streaming service used mostly for e-sports streaming: They can embed their streams onto third-party websites to inflate the number ...

The Twitch platform has become one of the most popular platforms for streaming as of recent but it seems like not everyone was playing fair. Bots are already a known issue around Twitch, Amazon's ...