A U.S. senator has written an open letter to Valve boss Gabe Newell asking for more stringent moderation of Steam. Mark Warner, the United States senator from Virginia, demanded Valve crack down on what he called “hateful accounts and rhetoric ...

The letter features a high-level view of the kind of hateful content the ADL found on Steam. That includes “40,000 groups with names that included hateful words, with the most prominent being ‘1488,’ ‘shekel,

Sen. Mark Warner says lax enforcement of rules by social media platforms ‘leads to toxic social environments that elevate harassment and abuse.’

A United States Senator submits an open letter to Steam parent company Valve over the proliferation of hate-based content on the platform.