Involuntarily, this article explains how the elite manipulate the population in the attacks. [Countering the dominant narratives of the New Zealand far-right] (https://www.newsroom.co.nz/countering-dominant-narratives-of-nzs-far-right) Archive:https://archive.is/FljRG Quote: A European Union-funded study praised Jacinda Ardern's response to the March 15 terrorist attack and offered suggestions on how New Zealand can counter far-right narratives in the future. "You have to create counter-narratives, you can't just aim for the usual kind of stuff around myth-busting. That shows a pretty deep understanding of how people come to believe the things they believe and how people reason. "At the heart of a lot of narrative things is understanding how people reason about a topic. **The goal of counter-narratives is to create different ways for people to reason about a topic, so conceptually it's very useful**." Countless studies show that myth-busting or dismantling misinformation rarely succeeds in changing the minds of someone who has been misled. Instead, effective counter-narratives that build social cohesion should be deployed more widely, for example, by highlighting the achievements of immigrants and the value of diversity, or by highlighting biculturalism. "Once people are on the extreme end of a far-right narrative, the research on how to bring it back is a little different. You get to a point where you have to do individual interventions with people," he said. "For me, counter-narratives work in this space of stopping people from going down that path. **The role of counter-narratives is essentially to build much more powerful and deeper understandings in people who could potentially be persuaded in that space. Counter-narratives are something you do in a general, public sense."** "That said, one of the best examples of radical right counter-narratives, or strategic communications related to radical right extremism, occurred in the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks." Ardern's emphasis on multiculturalism in the aftermath of the attack ("they are us"), her emotionality, and the push for a global response were hailed as successful counter-narratives. Germany recently used this method: [German mayor responds to Islamist terror attack by expressing concern for refugees](https://www.larazon.es/internacional/20210626/jxxzf6kvhrb7ro3qfot7etajze.html) Archive:https://archive.is/tCVun Quote: "However, the crimes of individuals can never be attributed to population groups, religions or nationalities. We Germans were also not condemned in general after World War II. Nor does it apply now to Somalis or refugees in general. This pigeonholing must end." Emotional discourse and "they are us". They try to turn the attack into something global, so that simple solutions are ridiculed.