Gaming platforms like Roblox can lead to rabbit holes where sex predators, extremists lurk: Experts

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such multiplayer gaming platforms are also where sexual predators and extremists lurk, ready to lead young users down rabbit holes where the lines between online and offline worlds are blurred.

extremist groups were using popular online games to recruit young Australians by exposing them to dangerous content such as violent re-creations of real-life terrorist events.

extremists are also producing and launching their own video games “to generate attention, exploit the popularity of video games and present their ideology in an entertaining and immersive format”.

If the virtual reality promises power and glory, reinforced by messages and footage suggesting the real possibility of achieving power and glory in an alternative social order, a person with an uncritical, undiscerning mind and a less than ideal existence with no hope for the future could easily be enticed.”

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