The number of citizens of Ukraine Ukrainians in the so-called death groups in social networks decreased by 45%.
This was reported by the head of cyberpolicy Sergei Demedyuk in an interview with "The Observer".
According to him, these groups consist of volunteers, journalists who monitor the situation, but there are not so many people - mostly people were just interested.
Demidyuk also said that among schoolchildren it was fashionable to be registered in such groups, but not to participate in death games.
"Active participants in these groups are just children from disadvantaged families - this is 80%, children with mental illnesses - about 10%. The rest are children with different kinds of problems. For example, parents' misunderstandings, misunderstandings in society. There was a case when the girl committed suicide because of unhappy love, "summed Demeduk.