{"id":54852,"date":"2019-01-31T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/news\/communication-campaigns-against-radicalisation-and-extremism-d-o-b-t-has-just-started\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:42:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:42:56","slug":"communication-campaigns-against-radicalisation-and-extremism-d-o-b-t-has-just-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesie.org\/en\/news\/communication-campaigns-against-radicalisation-and-extremism-d-o-b-t-has-just-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication campaigns against radicalisation and extremism: D.O.B.T has just started!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Europe and some of its countries are going through a politically and socially dark phase<\/strong>, characterised by the capillary diffusion and normalisation of hate speech, extremist narratives, passive acceptance of verbal violence<\/strong> which often leads to acts of physical violence and intolerance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New media are the channels that more than any other allow the unrestricted proliferation of these harmful contents, where users are often exposes to a great number of hardly verifiable biased information<\/strong>, whose rhetoric contributes to the increasing feeling of closure and extremism<\/strong> against a number of alleged enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For these reasons, it is necessary to intervene so that those people most vulnerable to online contents, namely young people, receive help, stimulus and tools which can support them to react and challenge extremist messages and radical thoughts diffused on the Internet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the rationale behind the project D.O.B.T \u2013 Do One Brave Thing<\/a>, which will produce, during the next two years, informative material and software tools:<\/p>\n\n\n\n