UK terror watchdog calls for Australia-style social media ban on under-16s

Australia implemented a social media ban on teenagers in December (Picture: Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images)

The UK should enforce an Australian-style social media ban to prevent teenagers from being radicalised online, the Government’s independent terrorism watchdog has suggested.

Jonathan Hall KC warned the internet had become a ‘portal to horrific acts of violence’, and that interacting with AI such as extremist chatbots could lead young misfits ‘down the dial of death’.

He...