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How Discord, Steam and other gaming platforms became dominated by the far right

Radicalisation can take place in everyday channels used by ordinary Internet users.

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Platforms like Discord and Steam have played host to a range of far-right communities.

Platforms like Discord and Steam have played host to a range of far-right communities.

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Robert Crimo III dropped out of high school a year before his junior year and made an attempt at a musical career as a rapper. 

An enthusiastically political individual, he was active on message boards and maintained a private server on the gaming communications platform Discord, where he exchanged nihilistic political memes with like-minded friends.

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