this is mark collett, the founder of the white nationalist group patriotic alternative, talking to playersty. it's one of the many examples of what the team have come up with, representing just a taste of what's 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, really important in terms of advancing and furthering the extremist movement globally. within these huge gaming platform, 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's not seig—heiling, it's not wearing swastikas or waving, you know, hitlerflags, it's 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 activism is just like any other activity that you enjoy. and of course, once you're in that world, then the radicalization can happen. that's when all of a sudde

this is mark collett, the founder of the white nationalist group, patriotic alternative, talking to playersf 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, 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 activism is just like any other activity that you enjoy. and, of course, once you are in that world, then the radicalisation can happen. that is when, all of a sud

this is mark collett, the founder of the white nationalist group patriotic alternative, talking to playerss 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, really important in terms of advancing and furthering the extremist movement globally. within these huge gaming platform, 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's not seig—heiling, it's not wearing swastikas or waving, you know, hitlerflags, it's 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 activism is just like any other activity that you enjoy. and of course, once you're in that world, then the radicalization can happen. that's when all of a sudden you're starting to go to other meetings, just trying to go to smaller groups that aren't necessarily p

this is mark collett, the founder of the white nationalist group patriotic alternative, talking to playersings, just trying to go to smaller groups that aren't necessarily playing games. but you're talking about politics more explicitly, like at least with cod, they haven't totally bent over to this like strong female lead characters in every military shooter. unlike the kind of wider gaming world where the better you are gaming, the more prowess you get in this space. it's not necessarily that people are just really happy or excited to play a game with a famous far—right figure. and so it kind of almost works the opposite way around. in these, the extreme right wing have potentially found safe harbors to broadcast their ideology or to engage in more traditional propagandizing, the sorts of things that they would have done a few years ago on facebook, youtube and twitter. the topics are all too familiar misogyny, anti—semitism and homophobia. but all of this does go beyond just community building. the game can build whole spaces where theirfar right fantasies can come alive. these are smal