Head of the FSB: Terrorists recruit youth in computer games chats

06/23/2021, 10:25

Terrorists are recruiting youth in chats of network computer games, and also create clones of games with imitation of terrorist attacks. This was stated by the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, reports TASS.

“In a special risk group, youth, the psychological processing of which is conducted on social networks and game chats of popular multiplayer computer games. Moreover, Islamic groups have already reached the level of creating their own clones of such games that allow you to influence the consciousness of potential supporters of terrorism and extremism not only through voice communication, but also by including the user in the game situations of the attacks, ”said Bortnikov.

According to him, against the backdrop of coronavirus pandemia, “Internet propagandists of terrorism and extremism” actively use the alarms of people in actively. “In fact, today the whole infrastructure has been launched in the global network,“ producing ”future terrorists,” said the director of the FSB.

He also added that during the insulation period “provided to themselves”, schoolchildren began to fall more often “under the influence of moderators of closed Internet communities that promote the cults of violence in relation to peers, suicide and other destructive forms of behavior”. Because of this, in his opinion, it is necessary to improve the legislation aimed at fencing youth from the influence of the ideology of violence.