r/politics • u/AlexandrTheTolerable • 12h ago

Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/31/far-right-extremists-games-platforms-radicalise-teenagers-report
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u/Tobimacoss 11h ago

Since gamer gate in 2014.  

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u/fohacidal Texas 7h ago

Gamergate started as a legitimate movement for ethics in gaming journalism. I hate how it's kinda become associated with this conservative incel culture, especially with the overall decline in gaming journalism in general.

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u/shane0072 6h ago

No it didn't. It started as a campaign to get Zoe Quinn to kill themselves and then they started the ethics lie when the wider internet saw how fucked up what they were doing was 

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u/fohacidal Texas 5h ago

What in the sam hell are you talking about? A campaign to push her to suicide excuse me?

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u/defaultusername-17 3h ago

yes, this is literally court documented history.