Twitch cracks down on US Army’s ‘fake giveaway’ program aimed at teens after activist complains

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The streaming platform Twitch has removed a ‘bait and switch’ ad by the US Army that sought to harvest teenagers’ data through a misleading video-game controller giveaway, after complaints from a progressive activist.

“This promotion did not comply with our Terms, and we have required them to remove it,” Twitch told the videogame news site Kotaku in an email on Thursday, after the Nation published a piece by the self-described progressive activist Jordan Uhl, who brought up the practice.

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