How cult-like online groups target children through gaming
A recent ABC investigation highlights a troubling form of online exploitation affecting Australian children through coercive, cult-like networks that use games, social platforms and messaging apps. These networks can use friendship, harassment, threats and blackmail to gain control over a child. In some cases, victims are pressured into creating sexual material, isolating themselves from the people who care about them, or harming themselves. This risk isn’t limited to children in Australia. Th