The Biden administration’s new plan to combat domestic extremism includes a version of the controversial strategy Countering Violent Extremism. It recruits community members to identify potential terrorists. Muslim Americans say CVE was used to target and harass their communities after 9/11. As The World’s Rupa Shenoy reports, Biden officials say things will be different this time.
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