The Number One Educational Resource for the Game Industry
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Overview:
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"As online gaming reaches bigger audiences, it has also become a target for sadistic online extremists seeking to groom, manipulate, and recruit children. The same immersive and social features that make games engaging also create opportunities for exploitation. This is an evolving and escalating form of online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA): children are being deliberately targeted, with real-world consequences including psychological harm, radicalization, and violence.nIn this session, panelists will examine how extremist networks are attempting to weaponize gaming spaces, where the threat vectors of terrorism and violent extremism overlap with OCSEA, which children are most at risk, and what tactics are used to perpetrate abuse and evade detection. Most importantly, the discussion will examine how gaming companies can disrupt these threats and protect young players. Drawing on real-world cases and interventions from panelists leading response initiatives, attendees will leave with actionable takeaways to combat this urgent threat."
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