Thousands Of Terrorist Links Pulled From Gaming Sites
Gamer Wearing Headphones and Playing Online GamegettyIn an international action, Europol has taken down thousands of links on gaming platforms, many used by younger players, for racist and xenophobic content.In an action on November 13, the European Union Internet Referral Unit removed 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 links to violent right-wing extremist and terrorist content and 105 links to racist and xenophobic content.The Referral Action Day involved authorities in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the U.K., all of which had reported the misuse of a variety of gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms to radicalize other users and spread terrorist content online.Some of these platforms allow players to broadcast their gameplay in real-time and in...










