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Gaming and Alternative Platforms

ISD’s sector-leading research has identified a growing number of alternative and smaller platforms used by hateful, extremist and terrorist actors to spread illegal content and evade scrutiny. Our insights have deepened understandings of how online harms manifest on novel platforms, provided valuable intelligence on threats, and informed policymakers, regulators, technology companies and the wider research community on how to improve online safety across the evolving online ecosystem.

September 15, 2025

ISD experts join 2025 Eradicate Hate Summit, co-host Gaming and Hate working group

ISD experts returned to the Eradicate Hate Summit in Pittsburgh this week to co-host a working group on combatting misogyny in gaming.

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Targeted Threats, Hate and Abuse

May 22, 2025

Did Adolescence cause a surge of users to an incel forum?

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Misogyny

October 14, 2024

Online Safety and the Regulation of Gaming Platforms and Services

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Accountability and Safety, Terrorism and Extremism

June 18, 2024

Investigation 1: Teenage Gamer Personas

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Recommender Systems and Algorithms, Tech Accountability and Safety

December 19, 2023

Im toten Winkel – Rechtsextreme auf alternativen und etablierten Plattformen

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Terrorism and Extremism

December 19, 2023

In the Blind Spot: Right-wing Extremists on Alternative and Established Platforms

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Terrorism and Extremism

December 1, 2023

Active Clubs, a growing threat in the US and Canada

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Terrorism and Extremism

November 20, 2023

Uisce Faoi Thalamh: Topic Analysis

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Tech Accountability and Safety, Terrorism and Extremism

November 20, 2023

Uisce Faoi Thalamh: Platform Analysis

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence, Tech Accountability and Safety, Tech Legislation and Regulation, Terrorism and Extremism

Further Reading

November 1, 2022

How Trump’s Truth Social posts manage to reach mainstream audiences

ISD's Jared Holt told the NYT about Truth Social's influence in alt spaces and how Trump's messaging still reaches the mainstream.

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Accountability and Safety

October 24, 2022

Detours and Diversions Online Strategies for the Dissemination of Right-Wing Extremist Content

This report explores how right-wing extremists disseminate their content across a variety of different platforms.

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Accountability and Safety

October 24, 2022

In the Blind Spot – How right-wing extremists use alternative platforms for radicalisation

This report provides a summary of an expert conference on current trends in right-wing extremism research.

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Legislation and Regulation

October 21, 2022

Escape Routes: How far-right actors circumvent the Network Enforcement Act 

This report examines how far-right groups are dodging Germany's Network Enforcement Act using alternative platforms.

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Legislation and Regulation

October 21, 2022

Signposts – A background report on right-wing extremist online subcultures 

This report provides background on ISD Germany's work on the far-right online, funded by the Federal Ministry of Justice.

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms

October 21, 2022

Telegram as a Buttress: How far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists are expanding their infrastructures via Telegram

This report examines how far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists use Telegram to expand their networks.

Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Hybrid Extremism and Nihilistic Violence

October 20, 2022

Confronting misinformation as it spreads across multiple platforms

ISD's Jared Holt spoke to The New York Times about the challenges of confronting misinformation online as content moves across platforms.

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Tech Accountability and Safety

September 13, 2022

ISD’s Christian Schwieter on the dangers and realities behind alternative media outlets

ISD's Christian Schwieter features in this documentary speaking about the extent and dangers relating to alternative media spaces.

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Information Warfare and Online Manipulation, Terrorism and Extremism

September 7, 2022

The Terror Times: The Depth and Breadth of the Islamic State Alternative News Outlet Ecosystem Online

This study investigates how Islamic State (IS) supporters have built networks of 'alternative news outlets' with tens of thousands of followers.

Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Islamist Extremism

August 10, 2022

Auf Odysee: Die Rolle von Blockchain-Technologie für die Monetarisierung im rechtsextremen Onlinemilieu

Diese Untersuchung untersucht, wie Extremisten die Blockchain-Technologie nutzen, um Geld zu verdienen und Vorschriften zu umgehen.

Emerging Technologies, Far-Right Extremism, Gaming and Alternative Platforms, Terrorism and Extremism

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