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Last week, a group of seven Democratic legislators in the US co-signed a letter sent to more than a dozen prominent publishers and developers asking them what they were doing about extremism in their games.
Motherboard reports that alongside that effort, New Hampshire Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan sent a letter specifically to Valve's Gabe Newell about "a significant presence of users displaying and espousing neo-Nazi, extremist, racial supremacist, misogynistic, and other hateful sentiments."
Hassan pointed to an assortment of terms and slogans readily found on Steam, from common dogwhistles like "1488" to overt declarations of "White Power" and the use of Nazi emblems and flags.