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Significance
The nature and spread of radical content online -- whether jihadist or right-wing supremicist -- and its link to terror attacks is a source of public and governmental concern. However, to date, no direct relationship has been proven between the consumption of terrorist-related online content alone and the adoption of an ideology leading to engagement in terrorism.
Impacts
Research on countering terrorism would likely be more fruitful by shifting from why people radicalise to how.
Cooperation between online organisations and policymakers is fundamental in combating the affordances the internet provides to terrorists.
Social media companies may come under legal pressure from the families of terror victims.
Keywords:
International,
INT,
Africa,
Asia,
Europe,
Middle East,
North America,
social,
computers,
internet,
security,
technology,
terrorism
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2017
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