Sec. 3. Findings
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Congress finds and declares the following: The ability to rapidly disseminate graphic images and ideas to shape the public narrative makes social media a strategic messaging and recruitment mechanism for terrorists, insurgent groups, and governments engaged in conflict. The United States Government and its partners around the world have not been effective in using social media to produce alternative narratives to stem terrorist recruitment through social media. Due to the strategic role the Internet plays in recruitment to terrorist violence, online counter-narratives promoted by non-governmental peers are most likely to directly reach and resonate with individuals who aspire to become foreign fighters or carry out terrorist attacks.
There exists youth-led demand for action-oriented solutions to countering violent extremism, as evidenced by the Youth Action Agenda to Prevent Violent Extremism and Promote Peace, which was produced by young activists at the Global Youth Summit Against Violent Extremism on the margins of the 70th United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, on September 28, 2015. The establishment of university-based labs for students to develop technology-based solutions will enable more innovative and effective alternative narratives to counter violent extremist recruitment online.