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Senator Mark Warner has urged Valve to address allegations of extremist and hateful content on the gaming platform Steam, following a report from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism (COE) that identified 1.8 million instances of such content, involving 1.5 million unique users and over 73,000 groups. The ADL's dataset includes over 458 million profiles, 152 million profile and group avatar images, and 610 million comments. Notably, symbols like Pepe the Frog and swastikas were the most common extremist symbols, making up 54.6% and 9.1% of detected symbols, respectively. The report also found around 15,000 public accounts with symbols linked to ISIS, Hezbollah, and Hamas, and "hundreds of accounts" displaying images of terrorist figures like Anders Breivik. Additionally, 18,352 groups contained potentially extremist or hateful keywords. Sen. Warner has requested clarification from Valve on its enforcement strategies and plans to address these issues by December 13.