Twitch Bans Over 7 Million Bots Contributing To Artificially Inflated Numbers

Twitch has delivered a widespread ban of 7.5 million bot accounts that have been contributing to "the rise of fake engagement" on the platform, the company said.A majority of these fakes accounts engaged in follow-botting or view-botting, which breaks Twitch's Terms of Service. They were detected by "ongoing machine learning technology that will continue to improve," Twitch said on Twitter. The result of this widespread ban may cause some streamers' follower or viewer counts to decrease. Twitch