ASPIRING artists are putting their skills to good use by launching a project to tackle the threat of extremism online.<\/p>\n
Arts Against Extremism is a youth-led project aimed at supporting people aged 16 to 21 to become activists, flooding social media with positive messages about their communities.<\/p>\n
Created in partnership by the Arts Council, Waltham Forest Council and the Home Office, the project was launched on Saturday October 14 at Centre17 in Church Hill, Walthamstow.<\/p>\n
Cllr Sharon Waldron, cabinet member for community safety and cohesion, said the aim is to give every young person in the borough the encouragement to become a \u201cvoice for social change\u201d.<\/p>\n
Anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigner Hibo Wardere of Walthamstow praised the \u201cpioneering project\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cIt recognises the wider harms of extremism, including FGM, and aims to engage youths in becoming a positive voice that stands up against it. \u201cI will be following the project\u2019s every move online and supporting it wherever I can.\u201d<\/p>\n
The launch of the project follows the Home Office\u2019s findings from March 2017 identifying 126,000 tweets containing extremist messages and the rise of \u2018fake news\u2019 and \u2018trolling\u2019 on social media.<\/p>\n
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