Terror Groups Leveraging on Covid-19 to Preach Hate Online

The New Paper

25 November 2020

Even as Singapore remains in the throes of a global pandemic, the threat of terrorism is still very much alive as radical ideologies continue to spread in cyberspace, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said yesterday. Agreeing, terrorism expert Remy Mahzam said movement restrictions due to Covid-19 have encouraged extremists to ramp up efforts in the cyber domain to recruit people who may be spending more time online. Mr Remy Mehzam, an Associate Research Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at RSIS said the recent slew of counter-terrorism investigations is no surprise, given the volatile and violent extremism backdrop amid the pandemic.

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