Facebook Gaming Looking To Stop Cheating Streamers

Youtuber Vikram “Vik” Singh Barn aka Vikkstar recently revealed that he will quit playing the Call of Duty Warzone due to cheater and hacker problems. He claimed that he will only return if there is a new update in the game.

A couple of days after Vikkstar announced his departure from the game, Facebook gaming announced that they will be taking steps to curb cheaters who stream content on its platform. Rod Breslau also known as Slasher on twitter took tor twitter and tweeted out; “Facebook tells me they have fully demonetized and removed from their Level Up program the Call of Duty Warzone cheater that Vikkstar spoke about in his video, along with several other accounts streaming cheats. Facebook says it will be stepping up efforts against streaming cheats”.

According to Slasher, facebook gaming representatives claimed tha;t “Cheating is not welcome on Facebook Gaming.” Facebook has since demonetized and removed the hacker seen in the video from their Level Up program, along with several other accounts that stream cheats. Like all efforts to remove and ban cheaters from having a platform, it remains to be seen how effective Facebook’s measures will be.