{
  "id": 17212731,
  "title": "Toxic online subcultures fuelling Asia’s school attacks",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/toxic-online-subcultures-fuelling-asias-school-attacks",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T10:06:36.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3372749/toxic-online-subcultures-fuelling-asias-school-attacks"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Recent school attacks across Malaysia have shone a light on a troubling trend of teenagers joining an online subculture that glamorises real-life killers, according to a prominent security analyst. Three violent incidents in Malaysian schools – in Kuching on October 21, Banting in July and Bandar Utama in October last year – could be linked to the True Crime Community (TCC), said Munira Mustaffa,…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}