Trust & safety for gaming · A program of ADIR
Technology and innovation to fight antisemitism and hate.
GameChangers is ADIR's trust & safety lab for gaming. We bring emerging developers, AI engineers and product builders together with T&S experts to build real tools against antisemitism, extremism and hate — in the corners of gaming that moderation rarely reaches: voice chat, coded language, private servers and in-game communities.
See it in action
Inside GameChangers.
The problem
Gaming is where hate finds its audience. It is also where moderation reaches least.
Hate in games rarely looks like hate. It hides in coded slang, memes, usernames, voice chat and off-platform servers. Spotting it — and building tools that can — is specialist trust & safety work. That is what GameChangers teaches.
3 in 5
children aged 10–17 have seen hate online.
eSafety Commissioner, Australia (2,302 children surveyed)
83M
U.S. online gamers were exposed to hate and harassment in just six months.
ADL, Hate Is No Game, 2023 (gamers aged 10–45)
3 in 4
of gamers aged 10–17 faced harassment in online games.
ADL, Hate Is No Game, 2023
The approach
We start where the hate already is.
Gaming and its underworld — game chat, voice, Discord servers, mods, memes and coded language — are our entry point. Fellows learn trust & safety from the people who do it professionally, then build tools of their own.
01
Identify
Recognize antisemitism and extremism where people actually spend time — game chat, voice, servers, memes and coded language.
02
Understand
Learn how hate spreads and evades moderation, and how trust & safety teams use technology and AI to catch it.
03
Act
Build real responses in mentored teams — and leave with the skills and confidence to use them.
The impact
They arrive as witnesses. They leave ready to act.
+86%
Relative increase in average self-rated readiness to act, entry vs. exit survey, 1–5 scale. Pooled sample of 100 GameChangers participants across both cohorts.
82%
completed the program ready to take action against online hate.
97%
are likely to join a future ADIR program.
78%
now want to combine technology and social impact in their careers.
Editions so far: New York, September 2025, with the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism · Tel Aviv, March 2026.
The winners · New York 2025
Meet the winning teams.
Four tools for safer gaming, designed and pitched by GameChangers fellows.
The GameChangers New York 2025 fellows.
1st place
CTRL
An AI-powered moderation tool that encourages positive communication in gaming, with real-time feedback and a player “Vibe Score.”
2nd place
Flaggy
An AI-driven moderation platform that crowdsources safer gaming environments by catching subtle, context-based abuse in real time.
3rd place
The Unifiers
A reporting and AI-learning platform that improves harassment detection by rewarding detailed user reports.
Honorable mention
M.A.L.L.
A gamified reward system that turns kindness and collaboration into in-game rewards.
Featured conversation
Facing hate in online gaming.
ADIR CEO Morielle Lotan joins Kevin Hogan, contributing editor at Tech & Learning, to talk about hate in online games, and how GameChangers trains them to build tools that answer it.
Tech & Learning — Conversations with Kevin Hogan
From program to product
The best ideas don’t stop at demo day.
GameChangers builds the talent and the prototypes. ADIR Labs develops and ships the products — like DashCam, which flags, captures and reports toxic behavior in games without pulling players out of their session.
See DashCam at ADIR Labs
Built to last
Not a one-time event. A lasting local capability.
Each new GameChangers community follows a three-year delivery model. ADIR trains local trainers so the program can stand on its own.
Year 1
ADIR leads
ADIR delivers the full program and curriculum with local partners.
Year 2
Shared delivery
Local trainers are trained and co-deliver alongside ADIR.
Year 3 and beyond
Locally led
A local team owns and runs GameChangers, with ongoing ADIR advisory support.
Our partners
Every community
deserves GameChangers.
We're looking for universities, technology companies, community leaders and supporters ready to launch the next GameChangers — and develop the digital leaders who will run it.