"Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups. The sweeps formed part of a coordinated " Referral Action Day" involving multiple partner countries"
""For example, perpetrators re-enact terrorist attacks, school shootings, or execution scenes in 3D gameplay, edit the video with chants or suggestive emojis, and disseminate it on various commonly used social media platforms for even wider reach," Europol said. "Other gaming-related platforms intended for streaming gameplay are misused to recruit minors into various violent extremist and terrorist groups or to livestream real attacks and even suicides""
A November 13 operation across gaming and gaming-adjacent services produced thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 jihadist links, 1,070 violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda links, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups. The sweeps were part of a coordinated Referral Action Day involving multiple partner countries and represent the IRU's most explicit engagement with gaming platforms. Extremists are using in-game chat, voice comms, livestreams, modding communities, and grooming tactics to court young players. Europol documented re-enactments in 3D gameplay, edited videos with chants or emojis, and misuse of streaming platforms to recruit minors and livestream attacks. The IRU, housed in Europol's European Counter Terrorism Centre and created in 2015, now reviews content across more than a hundred platforms and covers jihadist, violent right-wing, and migrant-smuggling-related content.
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