Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show.

In her State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul will propose that the default setting for online platforms should ban viewing or messaging minors.

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know.

David Baszucki, the CEO of Roblox, has been known to say some pretty outlandish things, but his recent interview with the New York Times might have ended up being a carpet bombing of poorly considered answers, as he tried to spin problems into “opportunities” and speak positively about tech additions that are anything but positive. […]