{"id":84776,"date":"2026-07-23T18:08:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84776"},"modified":"2026-07-23T18:08:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:08:43","slug":"inside-the-horrifying-online-network-764-where-children-coerce-others-to-commit-violence-and-self-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/inside-the-horrifying-online-network-764-where-children-coerce-others-to-commit-violence-and-self-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside The Horrifying Online Network, 764, Where Children Coerce Others To Commit Violence And Self-Harm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">n late 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a 14-year-old boy approached a man in his 80s who was using a walker. He stabbed the man three times in the back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The video of the attack in H\u00e4sselby was streamed and spread quickly. It fed a global online ecosystem that actively encourages and glorifies acts of violence and degradation \u2013 the \u201cgamification of harm\u201d, as the researcher Marc-Andr\u00e9 Argentino puts it.\u00a0The boy allegedly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/stockholm\/minst-atta-attacker-i-stockholm-kopplas-till-satanistisk-onlinesekt-pa-telegram\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">had links<\/a>\u00a0to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/11\/fbi-investigation-764-online-group\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">network known as 764<\/a>. Such groups are known to target young people in games including Roblox and Minecraft as well as communities struggling with mental health or sexual identity for online extortion, pressuring them into acts of violence and self-harm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: n late 2024, in a quiet suburb of Stockholm, a 14-year-old boy approached a man in his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}