Pranav Bhaskar

So I've recently been reporting on fringe movements online, and researchers are seeing some shocking stuff.

Hate groups from across the ideological spectrum are taking advantage of the internet to recruit younger and younger children to extremism.

I spoke to dozens of radicalization experts, counter-recruiters, parents, and young people who have recently left extremist groups.

And what they're seeing is that extremists are not just able to recruit and lure children on social media, but increasingly they're turning to video games like Minecraft and Roblox.

And in doing so, they can meet children with very little barrier to entry and move to chat rooms where they can continue to indoctrinate those children.

At the same time as these groups are shifting their recruitment tactics to conscript kids, the kids themselves may be particularly vulnerable right now.

In many cases, minors swing between competing belief systems, from white power to jihadism, which experts say indicates that the crisis may stem more from loneliness and wanting connection than any particular ideology.

Yesterday.