Steam-Powered Hate: Top Gaming Site Rife with Extremism & Antisemitism
Steam-Powered Hate: Top Gaming Site Rife with Extremism & Antisemitism
In a new study, the ADL Center on Extremism found 1.8+ million unique pieces of extremist or hateful content on Steam.
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The "Pepe the Frog" meme and Swastikas were the most common extremist or hateful symbols on Steam, representing almost 55% and 9% of all extremist symbols detected, respectively.
Some symbols, like the sonnenrad and Totenkopf, are explicitly extremist, while others, like Pepe, are often used by extremists, but their use alone does not signal extremist ideologies.
So Pepe is a "extremist or hateful symbol", but its "use alone does not signal extremist ideologies". I'm confused.
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Pepe is not a hate symbol, it's heavily tied to the meme culture and its usage is way beyond any extremists group's control.
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ADL and some other groups got absolutely clowned on a number of years ago when they declared pepe a racist hate symbol, and instead of backing down they just keep trying to quietly push it again.
You can pretty safely ignore them.
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