Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the research paper entitled Super- (and hyper-) posters on extremist forums, published in the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism on 30 July 2022, what assessment she has made of the implications for her Department's policies of that paper's findings; and if she will make a statement.

The Government draws on a broad range of analysis and evidence to understand the scale and nature of the online terrorism threat and inform our approach to tackling terrorist and extremist exploitation of the internet.

The authors of the report have presented their research to Home Office officials. The findings will help us further increase our understanding of the role of extremist networks in creating permissive and radicalising online environments. Tackling terrorist ideologies and radicalising influences is a core component of HMG’s Prevent strategy.

We are committed to working with domestic and international partners, civil society organisations, tech companies, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and others to review the operation of algorithms and other online features that may drive users towards terrorist and violent extremist content.

We do not believe a Written Ministerial or Oral statement is necessary at this time.