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The UK government has embarked on a series of clandestine propaganda campaigns intended to bring about "attitudinal and behavioural change" among young British Muslims as part of a counter-radicalisation programme.
In a sign of mounting anxiety across Whitehall over the persuasiveness of Islamic State's online propaganda, a secretive Home Office unit has developed a discreet multimillion pound counter-messaging operation that it says privately is running at "industrial pace and scale".
However, the methods of the Research, Information and Communications Unit (Ricu), which often conceal the government's role, will dismay some Muslims and may undermine confidence in the Prevent counter-radicalisation programme, which already faces widespread criticism.