The Five Eyes multinational intelligence sharing network has sounded an unprecedented alarm about the threat of young people being radicalised by extremist online content, as authorities warn Australian children as young as 12 are at risk of becoming terrorists.
In a first-of-its-kind intervention, security and law enforcement authorities from Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand said in a joint paper that they were battling to combat an alarming rise in young people who support extremist causes or plan terrorist attacks.
Five Eyes nations sound unprecedented alarm on ‘shocking’ teenage terror threat