Online radicalisation: Minor targets, extreme precision


Monitoring minors: Protecting children vulnerable to online influences begins with offline efforts at home to reach out, connect and listen to the multitude of mixed issues at the root of adolescent angst. — 123rf

AS a father of two teenage boys aged 16 and 14, I cannot read the news of radicalised minors without feeling alarmed and deeply concerned.

The recent case in Singapore, involving a 14-year-old, third-year secondary school student, is particularly striking.

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