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How Racist Groups Use Online Video Games To Spread Hate

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The Middlebury Institute Center on Terrorism Extremism and Counter Terrorists

Alex Newhouse is deputy director of the Middlebury Institute Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism. Last September you got a grant from the Department of Homeland Security to actually study this. What we're trying to do is create basically a baseline for understanding one how prevalent is extremism in games because that's still a pretty open question. And two how prevalent is knowledge of these things at the game developer levels. How do they think about the issue of extremism in games?

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