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Extremism Finds Fertile Ground in Chat Rooms for Gamers

There are rules people must agree to before joining Unloved, a private discussion group on Discord, the messaging service popular among players of video games. One rule: “Do not respect […]







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Meme Group on Discord Is Focus of Uproar Over Leaked Pentagon Documents

An online community of a few thousand subscribers that followed a YouTube celebrity named wow_mao had for years occupied a small, very male-centric corner of the internet. It was hosted […]




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Leaked Pentagon Documents Are Still Circulating on Twitter and Discord. Here’s Why.

Twitter and the social media platform Discord have various policies that might have prompted them to remove the leaked Pentagon documents that Biden administration officials say revealed key information about […]




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Why Leaked Pentagon Documents Are Still Circulating on Twitter and Discord

Twitter and the social media platform Discord have various policies that might have prompted them to remove the leaked Pentagon documents that Biden administration officials say revealed key information about […]




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Racist and Violent Ideas Jump From Web’s Fringes to Mainstream Sites

“The fact that this act of barbarism, this execution of innocent human beings, could be livestreamed on social media platforms and not taken down within a second says to me […]




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How Discord, Born From an Obscure Game, Became a Social Hub

In 2015, Jason Citron, a computer programmer, was struggling to break through in the video game industry. The new multiplayer game he had created with his development studio, Hammer & […]