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Andrew Brown and Zac de Silva

Budget funding to target online radicalisation threat

Concerns are increasing about young people being radicalised in spaces such as gaming platforms. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

Gaming platforms and social media platforms will be monitored for extremist content as part of efforts to stop people being radicalised online.

The federal budget will include $74 million of funding for a national centre for online counter-terrorism work, to be jointly run by spy agency ASIO and federal police.

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