{"id":50289,"date":"2026-07-07T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/50289\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:48:07","slug":"germany-launches-new-learning-platform-to-fight-online-holocaust-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/50289\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany launches new learning platform to fight online Holocaust distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learning platform ShoutOut, designed to teach students how to recognize and respond to Holocaust denial and antisemitism on social media, has officially launched in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-901735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germany<\/a>, the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) announced.<\/p>\n<p>The new digital program was presented at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/international\/article-901090\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin<\/a> on June 26.<\/p>\n<p>ShoutOut mainly offers a 15-minute immersive virtual game in which players roleplay as trainees in a resistance movement and learn how to identify and deconstruct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-901659\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antisemitic<\/a> patterns and content, while being educated on how it spreads online.<\/p>\n<p>The platform is currently offered in German and English, and is free for international schools beginning this month. Its target audience is secondary school students, and the program also provides lesson plans and educational materials for educators to lead group discussions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-901652\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antisemitism<\/a> and online behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201c[Holocaust survivors still with us today] worry \u2013 as do many of us \u2013 what unchecked hate can do next,\u201d Greg Schneider, Executive Vice President of the Claims Conference, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIt is why we are adamant about working with developers on innovative technologies like ShoutOut to combat antisemitism, Holocaust denial and distortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A 2020 Claims Conference study of US millennials and Gen Z found that 63% of the demographic were unaware that six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The survey also found that 49% of the demographic had witnessed Holocaust denial or distortion online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cIf we fail to win the fight against antisemitism online, we risk losing the internet as a space for democratic discourse,\u201d Dr. Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight Against Antisemitism, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cThat is why ShoutOut is so important: the project empowers young people to recognize antisemitic patterns, understand them, and speak out against them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Learning platform ShoutOut, designed to teach students how to recognize and respond to Holocaust denial and antisemitism on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3647,5271,5562,1384,5,4807,3464],"class_list":["post-50289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-antisemitism","tag-antizionism","tag-diaspora","tag-education","tag-germany","tag-holocaust","tag-holocaust-denial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}