DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- New details in an ITEAM investigation into a global network known as 764.
The FBI refers to 764 as a "New form of modern-day terrorism" that targets children online and exploits them. Tuesday, several lawmakers pushed for new laws that would hold violent criminals accountable who are part of groups such as 764 .
For years, U.S. authorities have struggled to stop online extremist groups like 764 from pushing teens to livestream acts of violence or self-harm because coercion is not a federal crime, but as children continued to be targeted, some even taking their lives, lawmakers are hoping to change that.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, one lawmaker said, "We have been wrestling with child exploitation, which is only getting wor

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