Europol's Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) says a November 13 operation across gaming and "gaming-adjacent" services led its partners to report thousands of URLs hosting terrorist and hate-fueled material, including 5,408 links to jihadist content, 1,070 pushing violent right-wing extremist or terrorist propaganda, and 105 tied to racist or xenophobic groups.

The sweeps formed part of a coordinated " Referral Action Day " involving multiple partner countries and marked the IRU's most explicit foray into the world of gaming platforms, which it now says are increasingly being misused for radicalization, recruitment, and the distribution of extremist narratives.

A report from the EU's Radicalisation Awareness Network backs this up, warning that extremists are already making "strategic and or

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