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Social network groups spreading suicidal information ordered to dismiss
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POLICE in Jiangsu Province have ordered netizens to dismiss three social media groups spreading suicidal information, an imitation of “death groups” which originated from Russia and incited teenagers to kill themselves.
Three netizens set up three chatting groups on QQ, an instant messaging tool, attracting 419 people in total. Netizens started to share brutal pictures of people committing suicide or post rules of the so-called Blue Whale suicide game, Jiangsu police said yesterday.
Police said no one has committed suicide under the influence of the social media groups.
Police investigation found that none of the three founders of the chatting group have mental illness, planned to commit suicide or incited others to take their lives. They started the group either out of curiosity or boredom.
Police have ordered them to dismiss the groups immediately.
Several dozen Russian teenagers out of the total of 130 who committed suicide between November 2015 and April 2016 were pressured by members of "death groups" on VK, the Russian equivalent of Facebook.
A "mentor" on one death group, 22-year-old Filipp Budeikin, was arrested by investigators in the city of Saint Petersburg in November after allegedly inciting 15 teenagers on VK to commit suicide.
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