Authorities and policymakers need to work with service providers to proactively identify and deplatform radical figures and sites where misogynistic, violent and extremist ideas proliferate. This will stymie the reach and legitimacy of bad actors while preserving young people’s access to the broader benefits of online spaces.
In addition to structural measures, we need to up our game in cultivating digital literacy. At the National Institute of Education, research by doctoral candidate Farah Vierra and Associate Professor Suzanne Choo examines how to better develop students’ truth-seeking literacies.
