"U.S. Senator Writes to Valve Boss Gabe Newell Demanding Crackdown on 'Hateful Accounts and Rhetoric' on Steam" - Wesley Yin-Poole, IGN, 18NOV2024
>The pressure's on.
>Mark Warner (D), the United States senator from Virginia, demanded Valve crack down on what he called “hateful accounts and rhetoric proliferating on Steam.” IGN has asked Valve for comment.
>Warner’s letter follows a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that identified over one million unique user accounts and nearly 100,000 user-created groups “that glorified antisemitic, Nazi, white supremacist, gender and sexuality-based hatred, and other extremist ideologies on Valve’s Steam platform.”
>The ADL found Steam hosts almost 900,000 users with extremist or antisemitic profile pictures, 40,000 groups with names that included hateful words, and “rampant” use of text-based images, particularly of swastikas, resulting in over one million unique hate-images.
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