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.

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