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Andrew Brown and Dominic Giannini

Lack of social media enforcement behind radicalisation

A large number of young people being radicalised online is a major point of concern. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A failure by governments to crackdown on social media in the technology's infancy may have contributed to young people being radicalised online, security experts say, as Australia's terror threat level was raised.

ASIO increased the terror threat level from "possible" to "probable" after the intelligence agency's chief revealed eight attacks or disruptions that involved alleged terrorism had been investigated in the past four months.

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