How Racist Teams Use On-line Video Video games To Unfold Hate
In December, an Anti-Defamation League examine discovered a pointy rise within the quantity of people that say they’ve encountered white supremacist ideology whereas enjoying on-line video video games. The persistent presence of particular person avid gamers and teams spreading hate in gaming communities has led to requires the business to do extra to cease it.
The query is, how?
Bloomberg online game reporter Cecilia D’Anastasio joins this episode to elucidate why it’s so tough to police digital worlds, and what firms are and aren’t doing to confront the issue. Alex Newhouse, deputy director of the Middlebury Institute’s Heart on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism, talks about his work attempting to assist the gaming business stamp out poisonous tradition on its platforms.
Feb 01, 2023
