ADL Releases First-Ever Online Gaming Leaderboard Evaluating Efforts to Curb Antisemitism and Hate

New York, NY, March 25, 2026 — ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) right this moment launched its Online Gaming Leaderboard, the primary complete public analysis of how main online game corporations deal with antisemitism, hate and extremism of their on-line multiplayer video games. The leaderboard assesses 10 of the most well-liked gaming titles on their insurance policies and in-game security options, offering a important useful resource for folks, avid gamers, policymakers and the gaming business itself. The prime performers have been Grand Theft Auto Online, Call of Duty, Minecraft, and Fortnite with Fortnite being the highest performer total.

The leaderboard evaluates main video games together with GTA Online, Madden NFL, Minecraft, Roblox, Valorant, Fortnite, Clash Royale, Counter-Strike 2, Call of Duty and PUBG: Battlegrounds. Games obtained labels indicating superior, reasonable or restricted protections based mostly on complete standards spanning insurance policies to forestall antisemitism and hate (40 p.c of rating) and in-game tooling to forestall antisemitism and hate (60 p.c of rating).

Online video games are among the many hottest types of leisure on the planet, with tons of of hundreds of thousands of gamers connecting every day. “Without strong safeguards, these platforms can become breeding grounds for harassment and hateful activity that harms players directly, normalizes hateful ideologies and damages trust,” stated Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO. “This leaderboard provides the transparency that parents, gamers and the industry need to understand where companies are succeeding and where urgent improvements are necessary.”

Currently, no publicly accessible, complete useful resource evaluates the protection measures inside in style on-line multiplayer video games. While the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) gives age and content material steering, it doesn’t assess what gaming corporations are doing to maintain gamers protected from hate and harassment in on-line recreation environments.

“When a parent wants to know if an online game is safe for their child, there has been no one-stop shop to understand how a particular game approaches online safety,” stated Daniel Kelley, Senior Director of the ADL Center for Technology and Society. “This leaderboard addresses that critical gap by offering the most comprehensive evaluation of safety measures in online multiplayer games to date, with a focus on how companies manage antisemitism and extremism.”

The ADL Center for Technology and Society, in partnership with gaming analytics agency NewZoo, carried out the one annual, nationally consultant survey of hate, harassment and extremism in U.S. on-line gaming from 2019 to 2023, offering the inspiration for this analysis.

Methodology and Criteria

Games have been evaluated on eight core standards throughout two classes:

Policies (40 p.c of total rating):

• Antisemitism and hate coverage (30%)
• Extremism/terrorism coverage (30%)
• In-game show of code of conduct (20%)
• Documentation of escalation to regulation enforcement (20%)

In-Game Tooling (60 p.c of total rating):

• Ability to dam different gamers
• Ability to mute different gamers
• Ability to report gamers for voice, textual content, usernames and user-generated content material
• Whether varied video games enforced towards makes an attempt to create antisemitic usernames

Prevention of antisemitic and hateful extremist usernames

ADL assigned increased weight to in-game tooling as a result of these options can immediately restrict antisemitic hurt to gamers and curb hateful and extremist content material. Bonus factors have been awarded for clear appeals processes, engagement with ADL on belief and questions of safety and parental controls. Points have been deducted for dangerous content material on public-facing recreation shops.

Company Engagement

Before releasing the scorecard, ADL privately shared detailed findings with every gaming firm and invited them to debate the evaluation. Some corporations engaged with ADL to make clear points or make enhancements to their insurance policies and tooling, whereas others didn’t reply. Some went so far as sharing inner coverage steering about how their on-line recreation explicitly prohibited antisemitism to additional improve the accuracy of the leaderboard. 

Best Practices for the Industry

Alongside the leaderboard, ADL launched a greatest practices information providing actionable methods for gaming corporations to strengthen participant security, together with:

• Develop sturdy, clear insurance policies
• Develop strong participant instruments
• Develop honest and clear processes
• Monitor and reasonable official, public-facing areas
• Engage with subject material specialists

The ADL Online Gaming Leaderboard is designed to be an ongoing useful resource that can observe how gaming corporations handle their on-line multiplayer ecosystems over time. The leaderboard and greatest practices information can be found here.

ADL is the main anti-hate group on the planet. Founded in 1913 to guard the Jewish folks, ADL works to cease the defamation of the Jewish folks and safe justice and honest remedy to all. In the face of rising antisemitism and extremism, we shield, advocate, and educate, by way of a mixture of applications and companies utilizing the newest improvements and know-how, and search to create a world with out hate. More at www.adl.org.