How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children Highlight

Across Europe and North America, children now account for 42 percent of terrorism-related investigations — a threefold rise since 2021, according to the United Nations’ Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate, an agency that identifies emerging terrorism trends. In Europe, from 20 to 30 percent of the counterterrorism workload now involves minors as young as 12 and 13, according to unpublished data compiled by the International Center for Counter-Terrorism, a research group in The Hague.