Gaming Platforms Enter Hill Hearings

House Oversight summoned the chiefs of Discord, Steam (Valve), Twitch, and Reddit to testify on Oct. 8 about 'radicalization' and open incitement on their services. Bringing a game storefront/chat ecosystem (Steam) and real‑time gamer chats (Discord, Twitch) into the same frame as social forums marks a shift in how lawmakers view political risk online. — It widens the policy target from classic social networks to gaming and chat infrastructure, raising new speech, moderation, and surveillance questions for vast non‑news communities.