How ‘supercharged’ white nationalists are using gaming to recruit for terror

The player's profile picture raised no red flags: just the smiling Lego like-face of a typical Roblox avatar, little different from the estimated 220 million people who log in at least once a month to the wildly popular children's video gaming platform.

On closer inspection, however, the player's "favourites" list had been arranged into an impromptu mosaic with the words: "Patriotic Front. Life, liberty, victory! Reclaim America!" The Patriot Front is an American group of fascist street fighters, who use "reclaim America" as their slogan.

The player was also part of an in-game group called Justice 4 Floyd, whose logo appeared to be based on the black shield of Nazi German SS combat divisions in the Second World War. That group was linked by "alliances" to other Roblox groups with names such as the British Nationalist Vanguard, the Condor Division (similar to the Nazis' Condor Legion), and the New Hampshire 2nd Infantry Platoon, whose description bore references to known neo-Nazi groups.