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Extreme Form of Online Coercion Explodes: Hitting Vulnerable Children and Young People

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Perpetrators use popular computer games such as Roblox and Minecraft to recruit victims.

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Perpetrators use popular computer games such as Roblox and Minecraft to recruit victims.

·Borås, Sweden
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The group is part of "The Com" a digital ecosystem in which sub-groups live together with different activities: some are oriented to cybercrime, others to sextortion, others to the production and diffusion of child exploitation material or to the glorification of violence.

·Italy
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The network "764" is only part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members to brutal, degrading acts. It has perpetrators and victims in dozens of countries. Who is behind it? And how does the system work? At the end of 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a 14-year-old boy addressed a man in the eighties who went to a roller. He stabbed the man three times in the back. A video of the attack in Hässelby was streamed and spread rapid…

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HuffPost It broke the news in Italy on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
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