A/HRC/37/73 minority youth as a means to address the root causes of racism and hate speech, including through the dissemination of information on the history and culture of minorities. 69. States should deliver or fund programmes for minority youth aimed at providing them with the necessary skills to better express themselves through the use of new technologies. 70. States should commit to the democratization of the Internet as a form of social justice. They should guarantee the global and open nature of the Internet, which can be a driving force in accelerating progress towards development and is of particular importance to minority youth advocacy and connectedness. 71. States should support minority youth-led media initiatives, for example through national broadcasting agencies and other media institutions such as television or radio programmes in minority languages, and ensure the inclusion of minority characters played by minority youth actors. States should ensure that minority media reach out to other audiences as such outreach would contribute to changing negative stereotypes of minorities. States should allocate greater human, technical and financial resources to innovative media projects that can promote diverse societies and highlight cultural diversity. 72. National and international public institutions should use social media in an attractive and engaging way to challenge the dominant narratives in the traditional mainstream media and to give a new voice to minority youth in the media landscape. 73. States should promote the use of social media as a means of direct participation and access to decision-making, and facilitate the engagement of youth and minority youth. Social media are a critical tool allowing greater involvement in public life and creating new spaces for minority youth to participate in public debates, and can particularly be used as a platform for outreach and advocacy. 74. States should proactively promote cultural diversity, inclusion, education and tolerance in cooperation with all types of digital media and traditional media, to disseminate information about minorities’ rights and give a voice to minorities’ concerns and views. 75. States should promote digital literacy in educational curricula and ensure access to information on the Internet. 76. States should build trust and engage with minority groups before seeking to disseminate messages concerning them, including through social media. 77. Digital media have an important role to play to counter youth radicalization and to combat xenophobia and racism. 78. Institutions that train journalists should seek to promote an accurate, equitable and increased representation of all social groups in the media, and should include in their programmes training for journalists about human rights, diversity and nondiscrimination, and unconscious bias. 79. Media institutions should promote responsible media and social media usage through formal and informal education, and should address and raise public awareness about irresponsible, incomplete and discriminatory media reporting, seeking to counter it by providing accurate and diverse reporting. To minority communities 80. Minority media initiatives should be sensitive to issues that directly concern the respective minority communities as well as to issues that concern the broader society. In addition, they need to take into consideration the diversity of opinions and perceptions that exist within the minority communities themselves. 12