PST concerned about children and teens becoming radicalised online

More and more children are being radicalised online. The Police Security Service (PST) is concerned about the development.

– PST Assistant Director Inga Bejer Engh said that we are particularly worried about the increasing number of children and young people participating in online forums where they are radicalized and taken to extremes. P4.

During Arendalsuka, the PST held a lecture on this topic. They carefully studied how children as young as 12 years old can be radicalized and recruited into environments and networks that can pose a threat to national security.

In June, the PST launched a campaign against a network of young right-wing extremists that was said to be inciting terror and murder of homosexuals, among other things. The network was reportedly made up of teenagers as young as 12 and young people in their 20s. Nepal.

Forums for sharing far-right content know no borders. Bjørn-Willy Wold, head of PST’s counterterrorism unit, said in June that such ideology is widespread.

– They also share videos of people carrying out terrorist acts. They pay tribute to Anders Behring Breivik and Brenton Tarrant, who killed more than 50 people at a mosque in Christchurch. It’s hard sometimes, Wald said.