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UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Response to 2024 summer riots failed to address root causes and links to racism, report says

Responses to the 2024 England and Northern Ireland riots ignored root causes, delinked violence from racism, and risked legitimising far-right mobilisation and vigilante violence.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 months ago

Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages

Mainstream social media, especially Facebook, hosted interconnected public groups where posts defending rioters and stirring racial hatred circulated and correlated with criminal charges.
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