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Gaming Platforms Linked to Youth Extremism, Warns NZSIS
10/6/2025
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Story summary
- New Zealand's Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) says gaming platforms recruit youth into extremist ideologies.
- A 2024 Five Eyes report notes online spaces facilitate contact with minors.
- A Hawke’s Bay man arrested after an FBI tip-off planned a mass attack with weapons found by police.
- NZSIS’s 2025 threat assessment calls an extremist attack in New Zealand a 'realistic possibility'.
