Summary: <p>In a reversal of the past four years, President Biden has vowed to take on the violent threat posed by the far-right. But how? On this week’s On the Media, a look at the techniques and tactics used to undermine extremism, here and abroad. </p> <p>1. Brad Galloway [<a href="https://twitter.com/bjgalloway1717?lang=en">@bjgalloway1717</a>], a former neo-Nazi and now case manager with <a href="https://www.lifeafterhate.org/">Life After Hate</a> and <a href="https://www.lifeafterhate.org/exitusa">ExitUSA</a> and coordinator at the <a href="https://socialscienceandhumanities.ontariotechu.ca/centre-on-hate-bias-and-extremism/">Center on Hate, Bias and Extremism</a> at Ontario Tech University, on how he and his colleagues work to get far-right extremists to accept responsibility for their choices and move beyond hate. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/ex-neo-nazi-de-radicalization-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>2. Kurt Braddock [<a href="https://twitter.com/KurtBraddock?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@KurtBraddock</a>], professor of communications at <a href="https://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/braddock.cfm">American University</a>, and the author of <em><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/weaponized-words/639A9461172E65F653455C5F9F06731B">Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization</a></em>, on messaging campaigns designed to neutralize rightwing propaganda, conspiracy theories, and calls to action. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/neutralizing-hateful-propaganda-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>3. Ross Frenett [<a href="https://twitter.com/rossfrenett?lang=en">@rossfrenett</a>], co-founder of <a href="https://moonshotcve.com/">Moonshot CVE</a>, on redirecting people away from extremist search results online. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/redirecting-extremisms-recruits-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p>4. Stig Jarle Hansen [<a href="https://twitter.com/stigjarlehansen?lang=en">@stigjarlehansen</a>], co-editor of the <em><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Deradicalisation-and-Disengagement/Hansen-Lid/p/book/9781138229969">Routledge Handbook for Deradicalisation and Disengagement</a> </em>on the long, checkered history of global de-radicalization efforts, and Michael German [<a href="https://twitter.com/RethinkIntel?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@rethinkintel</a>], fellow with the <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/">Brennan Center for Justice</a>’s Liberty & National Security Program, and author of <em><a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/disrupt-discredit-divide">Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy</a>, </em>on how the term "radical" has always swayed in the wind of power and the perils of the "de-radicalization" framing. <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/history-deradicalization-on-the-media">Listen.</a></p> <p><em>Music:</em></p> <em>Schubert — Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 100</em> <em>Khaled Mouzanar — Cockroachman</em> <em>Marcos Ciscar — The Old House</em> <em>Tom Waits — Way Down in the Hole</em> <em>Chopin — Berceuse In D Flat Major, Op. 57</em> <em> </em>
