How Racist Groups Use Online Video Games To Spread Hate
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Gaming and Extremism - What Are They Doing?
In your research how prevalent you find this online extremism these ideologies are in gaming. So we've seen everything from like an individual user's username that references the Christchurch New Zealand mass shooter to entire groups of hundreds of individuals referring to 1970s white supremacist terrorist organizations. It really runs the gamut one of the big challenges for me in tracking this is like there are so many different vectors of attack and vectors of misuse on these games it's actually hard to kind of get a handle on. We do not know the actual sort of extent of it the volume of it and the prevalence of it in these games.
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