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Which can be really, really important in terms of advancing and furthering the extremist movement globally. within these huge gaming platforms, small but dedicated communities of extremists opportunistically use the chat either built into the games or on sites popular with gamers to create a culture where extremist views can seem normal. loser! it is not seig—heiling, it is not wearing swastikas or waving hitlerflags, it is just like you do with your normal friends. you sit at home after school and you play games. and so i think the gaming element to it can create the sense that far right ac...

For a while, but the bigger issue still remains, and the responses that we did receive are all very similar. they all reiterated that they have zero tolerance policies against hate and violent extremism of any kind and they all proactively try to find and remove any content that violates their community guidelines. so, gaming and gaming platforms are being used by certain far right groups to make money, exert influence and build community, but the big question is how significant a threat this really is. it is so easy to turn round and say that this is blown up, this is exaggerated, and we have...

But then when you are in them, they can often actually be quite private, so these can be small groups, one chats, and not easy for researchers or investigators, often, to look into those kinds of places to see where radicalisation is at work. some of the companies we saw annual report, like minecraft, they are big, they have got money, why are they not able to help themselves? all technology companies are walking this kind of balancing act. 0n the one hand you have the balance of the platform is being misused and the other the cost and difficulty of enforcing it and they all arrive at some kin...

And difficulty in enforcing it. and they're all going to kind of arrive at some kind of weird point of least pain in the middle there where they kind of balance the kind of like the costs on the one side and the kind of public risks on the other. and i think currently right now it'sjust less visible that this kind of stuff is happening on the gaming platforms. they've just had less embarrassment and less public exposure around it. karl, thanks very much for covering this story for us, and that's it for the short cut of click for this week. the full length version is, of course, waiting for you...

Where like—minded people meet, chat and posture. how about trying to win a battle royale across multiple games while chatting nationalism? this is mark collett, the founder of the white nationalist group, patriotic alternative, talking to players on call of duty. it is one of the many examples of what the team have come up with, representing just a taste of what is out there. online gaming basically forms a means for people to connect over a shared hobby online, and this includes extremists, which can be really important in terms of advancing progress in the extremist movement globally. with...