Pro-Hitler Video Is A Call Of Duty Elite ‘Staff Pick’


You’d expect to see videos showcasing epic killstreaks and particularly inventive death-dealing chosen to be highlighted as staff picks on Call of Duty Elite‘s theatre pages. You might not expect to find Adolf Hitler there, though. And yet there he is.

Alongside how-to videos where players show other players how best to wield certain weapons, one of history’s most reviled leaders pops up twice as a Call of Duty Elite theatre staff pick on the internet hub of the social network centered around Activision’s hit FPS series. COD Elite user GhostOfTheReich links to a YouTube video with archival World War II footage where Adolf Hitler appears and another clip linked by user laliludo is for a music video by Aryan rock group Final War.

According to emails sent to Kotaku, complaints about the video have gone unanswered and comment threads beneath one of the video indicate that there’s been outrage for at least a week about the staff pick.

The problem here is that there’s not much transparency as to how this staff picks are selected. The most likely explanation is that there’s some sort of algorithm at work but it’s unclear if there is an actual human vetting the content that gets categorised as a staff pick on the COD Elite theatre channel.

Ironically, for at least one video, you can’t click through to YouTube without getting a warning about potentially offensive content. We’ve reached out to Activision for comment on this story and will update if we hear back.

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