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The CEOs of Twitch, Discord, Steam, and Reddit have been summoned to testify before Congress about the radicalization of their users.

September 17, 2025 3:45 pm

Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) invited the Chief Executive Officers of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to testify at a full committee hearing on October 8, 2025. The hearing will examine the radicalization of online forum users, including instances of open incitement to commit politically motivated acts. “The politically …

Are Amazon’s Layoffs a Sign of Wider Job Losses? Twitch, Amazon, BlackRock, Duolingo make cutbacks; Experts weigh in.

January 11, 2024 1:01 pm

Twitch, the livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, said on Wednesday that it was laying off hundreds of workers, the latest in a number of companies announcing cuts in their workforce this week. But experts tell Newsweek that the job losses do not signal that mass layoffs are set to hit the U.S. economy in the …

Twitch to shut down in Korea over expensive network fees which caused the Amazon owned streaming service to operate at a significant loss.

December 7, 2023 11:27 am

Twitch, the popular video streaming service, plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27 after finding that operating in one of the world’s largest esports markets is “prohibitively expensive.” Twitch CEO Dan Clancy said the firm undertook a “significant effort” to reduce the network costs to operate in Korea, but ultimately …