“It usually begins quietly. A young person is scrolling through Instagram or TikTok or a similar platform,” she said. “They encounter something that catches their attention, perhaps a political meme or a religiously conservative video.
“At first it isn’t terrorism – it’s just fringe; it is extremist-adjacent. But, the moment they engage, the algorithm takes over and so the feed tightens, the content shifts from conservative to radical, and from radical to security-relevant.”
From there, teenagers often move to platforms such as Discord or Telegram where “dark humour and the edgy memes” groom teens to accept progressively more extreme content, McGuinness said, before passive consumption turns to active engagement in researching methods…
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