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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Dan Sabbagh Defence editor

Teenagers as young as 13 under suspicion for UK far-right terrorism

young person using a laptop
The Institute of Strategic Dialogue said there had been a ‘surge in online extremist ecosystems’ which are ‘very easy for children to access’. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Teenagers as young as 13 are coming under suspicion of engaging in terrorism after being exposed to a toxic cocktail of easily accessible far-right extremism online, experts have warned.

Insiders describe “a horrible hateful soup” of social media content where children can “pick and mix” terrorist narratives, including the Terrorgram network – recently banned in the UK – of white supremacist channels on Telegram.

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