Experts say media literacy is key to combatting the rise of youth extremism. Video by Sophia Baker.
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00:00Governments around the world are concerned about youth radicalisation, online radicalisation
00:08and the rise of new mixed ideologies.
00:11Breaking news from the Australian state of Queensland where several police officers have
00:16been shot.
00:17You will not replace us!
00:19You will not replace us!
00:21AGO has decided to return Australia's national terrorism threat level from possible to probable.
00:30I can't tip the f*** button!
00:37Young regional people are increasingly at the forefront of the global misinformation
00:42crisis experts say.
00:44Regional Australia is really increasingly at the front line of a lot of these challenges.
00:48It's not accidental.
00:50It's carefully planned.
00:51It's algorithms.
00:52There's a lot of psychology that goes behind it.
00:54And so the war that we can show young people is that war that they can start to go through
01:00on the continent.
01:02This targeted misinformation is leading to more young people becoming radicalised than
01:07ever before.
01:08Algorithms on sites like Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok promote sensational content, amplifying
01:16extremist views and creating echo chambers that are hard to avoid.
01:20Coming across lots of different, often extreme ideas and belief systems.
01:24And that ties in many respects to their own personal experiences at the moment.
01:28Cost of living crisis, housing affordability crisis, coming out of COVID.
01:32There's definitely an anger and anxiety out there in the community.
01:36And these extremist ideas often tap into that.