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

In a recent case in Singapore, the Internal Security Department learnt that a radicalised 16-year-old had joined multiple ISIS-themed servers on Roblox. PHOTOS: INTERNAL SECURITY DEPARTMENT
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SINGAPORE - Gaming platform Roblox is home to an expansive realm in which more than 200 million users play, chat and connect every month as avatars in virtual worlds.

But law enforcement agencies worldwide say 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.

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