- Twitch on Friday will end the contracts for all members of its Safety Advisory Council, a resource made up of industry experts, streamers and moderators, who consulted on trust and safety issues.
- The council has advised Twitch on “drafting new policies and policy updates,” “developing products and features to improve safety and moderation” and “protecting the interests of marginalized groups,” per a company webpage.
- On May 6, council members were called into a meeting after receiving an email that all existing contracts would conclude on May 31, 2024, and that they would not receive payment for the second half of 2024.
if I know anything about advisory councils in tech it was pure optics and letting them all go will have absolutely zero impact on the normal flow of business beside the current bad press.
I would love to know if they ever affected company policy even slightly.
This is correct. Some of them were straight up just twitch mods/partners being paid “$10,000 and $20,000 per 12-month period”. So why not just convert to all twitch ambassadors and not pay them since they will do it for free.
https://safety.twitch.tv/s/article/Safety-Advisory-Council?language=en_US