PEW PEW Another hashtag will show 'em.
Posted on 06/30/2016 10:33:07 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Students are fighting terrorism with hashtags, and many are receiving cash awards from the Department of State for their work.
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) took home $5,000 prize for their social media campaign “It’s Time: #ExOut Violent Extremism.” Two other schools won a $3,000 reward, and one school received a $1,000 prize as part of State’s program to counter Islamic State propaganda online, according to FedScoop. A total of 47 schools participated in the program this spring, each receiving a $2,000 grant and $400 in Facebook ad credits to implement their plan.
The prizes, announced Monday, are part of the State Department’s Peer-to-Peer: Challenging Extremism initiative, described as an “innovative partnership between the U.S. government and universities around the world, empowers students to design and pilot new digital products and tools that strengthen communities and societies against violent extremist ideologies that recognize no borders.”
“ISIL uses fear to motivate, to further their cause and further their agenda,” Olivia Hauck, member of the winning RIT team told FedScoop. “We wanted to take an opposite approach and motivate people through compassion and motivate people through understanding.”
An April 27 tweet to the campaign’s 70 Twitter followers reads “There’s a significant difference between the ideals of ISIS and the ideals of Islam! #ItsTime #ExOut #ROC.”
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Will that be Halal Hash[tags]?
These people in the State Dept. are complete fools...and we pay for them.
This administration and all of its employees are so F...ked up that it strains your imagination. Vote for The Donald.
Propaganda 101
No-—the people in the State Dept know exactly what they are doing since before McCarthy. They are Marxist plants-—they infiltrated to destroy America (and wipe out the Christian Worldview and collapse/overload the system. They are creating through controls on media and skools a brainwashed mass of useful idiots who are incapable of thinking critically-—nothing in their minds but mush/cr*p-—just fools/slaves for the State.
Fighting terrorism with hashtags and teddy bears. Those snowflakes are so courageous!
We have become a nation of retarded children.
Not much understanding require snowflake - they want to kill you.
So...the state department wastes taxpayer money yet again. Is there no one in “authority” to hold these pinheads accountable? Do we really have a criminal government?
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