Gaming Minecraft needs to invest in more hate moderation, ADL study finds The Anti-Defamation League studied three months of anonymized data to analyze how Minecraft treats hate speech. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is recommending that Minecraft invest in its content moderation efforts and in creating more robust community guidelines after the organization studied three months of anonymized chat data from the game. The study, which was conducted in collaboration with Take This, the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, and GamerSafer, focused specifically on how Minecraft deals with hate speech. The researchers chose Minecraft not just because it’s popular (though it...