Video games are a mainstream cultural force, but they remain largely absent from mainstream debates about digital rights and online safety. Our paper examines how Trust & Safety governance in online gaming compares to social media, tracing shared challenges around content moderation, pro-social design, and cross-platform harms. Drawing on expert reflections from a September 2025 symposium co-hosted by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and American University’s Center for Security, Innovation, and New Technology, the paper offers a framework for understanding how the governance of online games can inform digital policy more broadly.

Disinformation spread via digital technologies is accelerating and exacerbating violence globally. There is an urgency to understand how coordinated disinformation campaigns rely on identity-based disinformation that weaponizes racism, sexism, and xenophobia to incite violence against individuals and marginalized communities, stifle social movements, and silence the press.