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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study done by ADL

aka nonsense article for ragebait lmao
The Anti-Defamation League thinks that anti-Zionism is antisemitic, so they’re not my go-to authority on… anything. They run cover for Western settler-colonialism in the Levant.
Not surprising to anyone who has seen steamdiscussions before. Shit is like 4chan 2 years behind with worse grammar.
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.
- 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.
- 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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