{"id":9604,"date":"2026-05-18T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9604"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:27:14","slug":"mosques-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/05\/18\/mosques-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosques and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hyphenonline.com\/2026\/05\/18\/mosques-protective-security-faith-communities-funding-code-conduct-online-social-media\/\">Lucas Cumiskey, Samir Jeraj, Hyphen Online, Mosques could lose security funding if they \u2018undermine\u2019 government online, 18 May 2026.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Home Office has warned\u00a0faith\u00a0organisations applying for public funding to improve security that their applications could be rejected if they \u201cundermine the work\u201d of the government or share the wrong posts on\u00a0social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This relates to the new Home Office Code of Conduct: Protective security for faith communities: code of conduct. Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/protective-security-for-faith-communities-code-of-conduct\/protective-security-for-faith-communities-code-of-conduct\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/protective-security-for-faith-communities-code-of-conduct\/protective-security-for-faith-communities-code-of-conduct<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/protective-security-for-faith-communities-code-of-conduct\/protective-security-for-faith-communities-code-of-conduct\"><br><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mm5aywkug22k\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidlezc4qsyhewhmqalweghygasktvdpknjkli5tpn3ogom53jzw7i\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34 The Home Office has warned faith organisations applying for protective security funding that their applications could be rejected if they \u2018undermine the work\u2019 of the government \u2014 or share the wrong posts on social media.\n\nFull story on @hyphenonline.com \u2b07\ufe0f\nhyphenonline.com\/2026\/05\/18\/m&#8230;<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx\/post\/3mm5aywkug22k?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hyphen (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx?ref_src=embed\">@hyphenonline.com<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:w2gnrc2ncngzhhwkv2uib3mx\/post\/3mm5aywkug22k?ref_src=embed\">18 May 2026 at 17:06<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Cumiskey, Samir Jeraj, Hyphen Online, Mosques could lose security funding if they \u2018undermine\u2019 government online, 18 May 2026. &#8220;The Home Office has warned\u00a0faith\u00a0organisations applying for public funding to improve security that their applications could be rejected if they \u201cundermine the work\u201d of the government or share the wrong posts on\u00a0social media.&#8221; This relates to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9606,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9604\/revisions\/9606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}