US DHS Awards Nearly $AU$1.04 Billion To Researchers Monitoring Extremism In Video Game Communities The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the agency that brought you great hits like airport facial recognition, kids in cages, and a short-lived Disinformation Governance Board, is setting its sight on another supposed hotbed of terror — video games. This week, the DHS awarded terrorism and misinformation researchers a $US699,763 ($AU1,042,065,500) grant to investigate the ways extremism can spread through online gaming communities. The DHS hopes the researchers will use the grant to develop a set of “best practices and centralised resources,” for game makers to...
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