COVID-19 Lockdown May Have Fueled Online Self-Radicalization: UK Minister

COVID-19 Lockdown May Have Fueled Online Self-Radicalization: UK Minister
Damian Hinds, then UK education secretary, leaves 10 Downing Street after the weekly Cabinet meeting in London on July 9, 2019. Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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The COVID-19 lockdowns may have resulted in more people being self-radicalised on the Internet, a British minister has warned following a terrorist bomb attack in Liverpool on Remembrance Sunday.

A taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital at 10:59 a.m. on Sunday, killing the passenger and injuring the driver, around a mile away from the city’s cathedral where a large Remembrance service was taking place.