Government unit uses community groups to spread counter-extremism messages but critics say it risks alienating UK MuslimsThe UK government has embarked on a series of clandestine propaganda campaigns intended to bring approximately “attitudinal and behavioural change” among young British Muslims as fraction of a counter-radicalisation programme.
In a sign of mounting anxiety across Whitehall over the persuasiveness of Islamic State’s online propaganda, a secretive Home Office unit has developed a discreet multimillion pound counter-messaging operation that it says privately is running at “industrial pace and scale”.
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Source: theguardian.com