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Europol EU IRU Referral Action Day on extremist gaming content

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Europol and eight participating countries carried out Referral Action Day on November 13 2025, referring thousands of extremist URLs from gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms to reduce public exposure. The operation covered jihadist, violent right-wing extremist or terrorist, racist, and xenophobic material. The EU IRU led the effort and used it to push extremist content out of widely used online spaces.

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  1. 17.11.2025 18:00 2 articles · 6mo ago

    Europol Referral Action Day targets extremist gaming content

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    Europol and eight participating countries conducted a joint operational action on November 13 2025, referring 5,408 links to jihadist material, 1,070 links to violent right-wing extremist or terrorist content, and 105 links to racist and xenophobic posts from gaming and gaming-adjacent platforms.

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  2. 17.11.2025 18:00 1 articles · 6mo ago

    Europol describes extremist distribution across gaming ecosystems

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    Europol described extremist creators recording scenes inside games or game chats, editing them with coded language, emojis or chants, and pushing the clips onto mainstream social networks, while also noting that some platforms built for gameplay streaming have been misused to livestream attacks or recruit minors. Europol specialists said they held multiple operational meetings before the action day so participating countries could exchange intelligence and refine best practices, and the EU IRU said it plans to publish a Transparency Report on 2024 terrorist-content monitoring, referrals, private-sector partners, and support for the Regulation on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online.

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