FBI fears violent extremist teenagers in the United States use online gaming activities

2025-10-04 21:45:27|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Federal Investigators and researchers at the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) are familiar with the gaming field.A leaked briefing document shows that the agency, born after 9/11 and aims to combat global terrorism, is closely following the activities of "American violent extremist teenagers" on various online gaming platforms - ranging from Fortnite to Battle.net.

The alleged NCTC document was published by independent journalist Dan Boguslav, which lists multiple gaming platforms and the features of each.The full list includes Battlenet, Discord, Fortnite, PlayStation Network, Roblox, Steam, Twitch and Xbox Live.Discord is the only platform listed as a satisfying all features, including "text chat", "voice chat", "video chat", "picture sharing", "friend list" and "discoverable community" -- a platform that the gunman allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk used to discuss the murder.

The leaked memo read: "According to a previous report on extremists using online games to facilitate terrorist activities, some violent extremist teenagers in the United States may play online games or use game-related networks and apps, and may use these applications to communicate, plan events or disseminate terrorist information with like-minded people."

It is not difficult to find that the document focuses not only on planning potential terrorist activities, but also on so-called "terrorist information" - whatever it specifically refers to.After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, game-related platforms such as Discord, Twitch and Steam have been summoned to Congress to testify.President Trump recently declared Antifa a terrorist organization, while Heritage Foundation called on the FBI to formally classify "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism, TIVE," as a domestic terrorism threat category.

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