Twitch Hires Xbox Exec Angela Hession as Head of Trust and Safety
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAmazon’s Twitch hired Angela Hession, a 20-year veteran of Microsoft, as the live-streaming service’s global VP of trust and safety.Hession most recently served as Microsoft’s global head of Xbox trust and safety, where she oversaw the creation of Xbox’s Project Artemis, a “grooming detection” program to identify online predators attempting to lure children for sexual purposes. She led the Microsoft Safety virtual team focused on creating the Safer World Faster initiative that spanned multiple consumer products.According to Twitch, Hession’s appointment builds on its ongoing investment in trust and safety capabilities.