Let me also say to large social media companies and those who run them: violent disorder was clearly whipped up online,
I’m not going to stand here and cast judgment on what others have been saying,
Has Nigel Farage condemned the violence? Has he condemned the EDL? Fomenting discord in society is what these people seem to exist for,
Nigel Farage is giving the EDL succor, undermining the police, creating conspiracy theories, and giving a false basis for the attacks on the police,
A minority of people are attempting to portray that this inhumane act is somehow related to the Muslim community, ... Frankly it is not, and we must not let those who seek to divide us and spread hatred use this as an opportunity.”
I don’t know, but I think that’s a fair and legitimate question,
There is a clear attempt to exploit the tragic incident by right wing influencers and grifters, pushing an anti-immigrant and xenophobic agenda despite there being no evidence,
There’s a responsibility to say the police are doing a difficult job, local authorities, all of the services that are on the ground,
We have laws and we have proscribed groups and we do look at that and it is reviewed regularly. So I’m sure that that will be something that the home secretary will be looking at as part of the normal course of what we do and the intelligence that we have,
This is clearly not a case of accidental mischaracterisation. This is Reform and Farage in particular actively spreading disinformation and actively using insinuation to incite anxiety, concern and inflame emotions,
He is an MP. If he has questions, he could have asked them in the House of Commons yesterday – but he wasn’t there. Instead he prefers to encourage those spreading misinformation on here. Utterly shameful.”
It is sickening to see this happening within a community that has been devastated by the tragic loss of three young lives,
It looks like the tweet has been deliberately fabricated to generate hostility toward ethnic minorities and immigrants, and it’s a potentially Islamophobic piece of propaganda,
There has been much speculation and hypothesis around the status of a 17-year-old male who is currently in police custody and some individuals are using this to bring violence and disorder to our streets,
It looks like a news website, feels like a news website, but of course it isn’t — it’s based off a WordPress template,
This is the only thing that I will write, but please stop the violence in Southport tonight.”
You care more for Afghanis, Somalis, Eritreans, Syrians, Pakistanis,
There’s has been no EDL for over a decade.”
Busy now, please check back later.”
We also know that historically social media algorithms are tweaked in order to further that content, because they know that it promotes engagement, and engagement over the long term is their business model,