>According to an analysis carried out by Sky News, using the social media monitoring tool Talkwalker, less than 20 per cent of posts about the incident came from Irish users.
>On the day of the protests there were 26,801 posts mentioning Newtownmountkennedy on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. This rose to 53,907 the following day. According to the data, 56 per cent of these posts came from users based in the US. Just 21 per cent came from Irish users. Just under 9.6 per cent came from the UK.
>Of the five posts which saw the most engagement from others, three were from non-Irish accounts. One post from UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson about the protests had 42,500 engagements.
>The data also shows extensive use of the anti-immigration hashtags “Ireland belongs to the Irish” and “Ireland is full” around the time of the protest. Again the majority of these posts came from non-Irish accounts. Some 57 per cent of accounts which posted “Ireland belongs to the Irish” were US based.
Coming in here, stealing our racism.
Not surprising atall. Just finished arguing with a fella in another thread about the protests outside Simon Harris’ home realised through his post history that he is not from or living in ireland and is instead a school teacher in Spain.
So other countries aren’t allowed to care about what happens here?
How come the Irish are encouraged to show solidarity with Palestine – a place at the other side of the globe, but people think anybody showing solidarity with us is some grand conspiracy?
This seems like a psy-op..
Well duh. And it’s certainly not one account per person.
No surprise to anyone here of course, shur you can see it in action live.
Over in the thread about the “Éire” clowns at Simon Harris’ house, one of the very first comments – all in favor of them, naturally – is from a chap who also likes to post about his customer service experience at Target.
Just like all the anti-semitism in France came from “Russian” accounts, what a coincidience.
Military aged accounts probably.
Between Ukraine, Palestine and the UKs Rwanda plan people should be aware that this sub will see increased levels of people making antagonistic bad faith arguments.
Its better to not engage with these types of posts and comments just downvote and report.
Might seem like a stupid question but would having a VPN make a difference to figures like these?
This is what’s been suspected all along, *and* from before immigration turned into the hot topic. That international far-Right axis, inserting itself into foreign arguments on any conceivable pretext, and lending weight to issues that would not normally become such flash points without their considerable influence.
If you boil it all down to an essence, you can discern a fundamental intention to foment public unrest to the extent that police powers have to be increased way beyond a nation’s own characteristic preferences, and to get things to a point where an obsession with strong security, heavily policed and even with private militias involved, is the nation’s top concern. Sowing mistrust of immigrants has always been the easy way for that lot, not least Tommy Robinson, mentioned in the article. If you set everyone afire with suspicion and resentment, you’re half way to convincing them that there are *other* issues they also should be angry about, and that only a ‘strongman’ type of leader is capable of delivering.
It’s invasion, imperialism, by another means, really. If public safety is turned into the topic du jour, other issues can be swept aside, overlooked, or dealt with summarily and not as they ought to be. And *that* is the goal behind the pretext of security: halting and even turning back progressive political objectives, nudging a country back to a more pliable and culturally quiescent state. In this scenario, ‘closed borders’ sits next to ‘the restriction of reproductive rights’, and near ‘increase defence spending’ and ‘arm all police officers’. It all has a familiar ring, doesn’t it?
Does this include twitter?
If so, of course that’s going to dilute the overall sample as it’s a platform where global interaction is way more common
Would be interested to see the numbers in regards to journal comments, r/Ireland and boards.ie etc
It’s funny how the Irish far right hates foreigners but has links to the far right in the UK and/or the EU and countries outside of Europe entirely. They’re complete and utter hypocrites, but they can’t even see it.
Close the internet borders.
Maybe because immigrants who came here legally who had to go through years and years of paper work and spent money on legal fees and solicitors feel a bit cheated that people can just come here and leech off the government
Maybe because HSE workers who are foreigners have had their families denied visits and their visas rejected and haven’t seen their families in years.
Sincerely, an immigrant who came here to work legally and pays tax like everyone else. Who is also struggling like everyone else to afford a roof over my head and also struggling with the long HSE waiting lists. But yes. Let’s invite more people who cannot contribute.
Irish Times trying to gas light
I always think theres a right wing think tank somewhere in the US that’s paid a company to use bots and puppet accounts to target Ireland to influence local policy and sow division in the EU.
Is this even accurate?
Considering VPN / proxies exist?
Least surprising news I’ve heard today.
Are we going back to having to close up shop over night?
I’ve noticed that contentious posts are already locked overnight.
ok and? still doesnt change the fact government policy is deeply unpopular anywhere it is proposed
No one believes twitter represents the views of people. Doesn’t change the fact that locals are against asylum seekers being lodged in their area.
Nothing new in this
Most of the racism I see online relating to Irish events on social media and youtube, whether about immigrants or “islamisation” or “tent city” and such come from the same dole-hopping, random violence, half-their-family-live-and-work-abroad types of chancers and scumbags who’d frankly be doing us a favour if they emigrated and left the often more honest and decent immigrants stay. They’ve all the time in the world to stand in front of an underused hotel 24/7 to tell mostly desperate refugees from war or famine they aren’t welcome (with less polite words than that) while shouting “traitor!” at the garda protecting their victims.
Timothy snider explore this topic well in his book, on tyranny, he cites one parTICularly good example of Russian state sponsored actors doing this in Germany, false claims of a little girl being s/a by a gang of immigrants in a small town in Germany ahead of planned marches by right elements. And despite there being no evidence at all of this little white blonde blue eyed girl existing or the gang of immigrants, or any record of attacks of its like, it “went viral” and led to a lot of unrest.
We witnessed Same playbook during Dublin riots, and how the Isreali mouth pieces on twitter reacted, “Islamic terror attack on Ireland” that’s what Ireland gets Etc.. Etc..
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>According to an analysis carried out by Sky News, using the social media monitoring tool Talkwalker, less than 20 per cent of posts about the incident came from Irish users.
>On the day of the protests there were 26,801 posts mentioning Newtownmountkennedy on X, the site formerly known as Twitter. This rose to 53,907 the following day. According to the data, 56 per cent of these posts came from users based in the US. Just 21 per cent came from Irish users. Just under 9.6 per cent came from the UK.
>Of the five posts which saw the most engagement from others, three were from non-Irish accounts. One post from UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson about the protests had 42,500 engagements.
>The data also shows extensive use of the anti-immigration hashtags “Ireland belongs to the Irish” and “Ireland is full” around the time of the protest. Again the majority of these posts came from non-Irish accounts. Some 57 per cent of accounts which posted “Ireland belongs to the Irish” were US based.
Coming in here, stealing our racism.
Not surprising atall. Just finished arguing with a fella in another thread about the protests outside Simon Harris’ home realised through his post history that he is not from or living in ireland and is instead a school teacher in Spain.
So other countries aren’t allowed to care about what happens here?
How come the Irish are encouraged to show solidarity with Palestine – a place at the other side of the globe, but people think anybody showing solidarity with us is some grand conspiracy?
This seems like a psy-op..
Well duh. And it’s certainly not one account per person.
No surprise to anyone here of course, shur you can see it in action live.
Over in the thread about the “Éire” clowns at Simon Harris’ house, one of the very first comments – all in favor of them, naturally – is from a chap who also likes to post about his customer service experience at Target.
Just like all the anti-semitism in France came from “Russian” accounts, what a coincidience.
Military aged accounts probably.
Between Ukraine, Palestine and the UKs Rwanda plan people should be aware that this sub will see increased levels of people making antagonistic bad faith arguments.
Its better to not engage with these types of posts and comments just downvote and report.
Might seem like a stupid question but would having a VPN make a difference to figures like these?
This is what’s been suspected all along, *and* from before immigration turned into the hot topic. That international far-Right axis, inserting itself into foreign arguments on any conceivable pretext, and lending weight to issues that would not normally become such flash points without their considerable influence.
If you boil it all down to an essence, you can discern a fundamental intention to foment public unrest to the extent that police powers have to be increased way beyond a nation’s own characteristic preferences, and to get things to a point where an obsession with strong security, heavily policed and even with private militias involved, is the nation’s top concern. Sowing mistrust of immigrants has always been the easy way for that lot, not least Tommy Robinson, mentioned in the article. If you set everyone afire with suspicion and resentment, you’re half way to convincing them that there are *other* issues they also should be angry about, and that only a ‘strongman’ type of leader is capable of delivering.
It’s invasion, imperialism, by another means, really. If public safety is turned into the topic du jour, other issues can be swept aside, overlooked, or dealt with summarily and not as they ought to be. And *that* is the goal behind the pretext of security: halting and even turning back progressive political objectives, nudging a country back to a more pliable and culturally quiescent state. In this scenario, ‘closed borders’ sits next to ‘the restriction of reproductive rights’, and near ‘increase defence spending’ and ‘arm all police officers’. It all has a familiar ring, doesn’t it?
Does this include twitter?
If so, of course that’s going to dilute the overall sample as it’s a platform where global interaction is way more common
Would be interested to see the numbers in regards to journal comments, r/Ireland and boards.ie etc
It’s funny how the Irish far right hates foreigners but has links to the far right in the UK and/or the EU and countries outside of Europe entirely. They’re complete and utter hypocrites, but they can’t even see it.
Close the internet borders.
Maybe because immigrants who came here legally who had to go through years and years of paper work and spent money on legal fees and solicitors feel a bit cheated that people can just come here and leech off the government
Maybe because HSE workers who are foreigners have had their families denied visits and their visas rejected and haven’t seen their families in years.
Sincerely, an immigrant who came here to work legally and pays tax like everyone else. Who is also struggling like everyone else to afford a roof over my head and also struggling with the long HSE waiting lists. But yes. Let’s invite more people who cannot contribute.
Irish Times trying to gas light
I always think theres a right wing think tank somewhere in the US that’s paid a company to use bots and puppet accounts to target Ireland to influence local policy and sow division in the EU.
Is this even accurate?
Considering VPN / proxies exist?
Least surprising news I’ve heard today.
Are we going back to having to close up shop over night?
I’ve noticed that contentious posts are already locked overnight.
ok and? still doesnt change the fact government policy is deeply unpopular anywhere it is proposed
No one believes twitter represents the views of people. Doesn’t change the fact that locals are against asylum seekers being lodged in their area.
Nothing new in this
Most of the racism I see online relating to Irish events on social media and youtube, whether about immigrants or “islamisation” or “tent city” and such come from the same dole-hopping, random violence, half-their-family-live-and-work-abroad types of chancers and scumbags who’d frankly be doing us a favour if they emigrated and left the often more honest and decent immigrants stay. They’ve all the time in the world to stand in front of an underused hotel 24/7 to tell mostly desperate refugees from war or famine they aren’t welcome (with less polite words than that) while shouting “traitor!” at the garda protecting their victims.
Timothy snider explore this topic well in his book, on tyranny, he cites one parTICularly good example of Russian state sponsored actors doing this in Germany, false claims of a little girl being s/a by a gang of immigrants in a small town in Germany ahead of planned marches by right elements. And despite there being no evidence at all of this little white blonde blue eyed girl existing or the gang of immigrants, or any record of attacks of its like, it “went viral” and led to a lot of unrest.
We witnessed Same playbook during Dublin riots, and how the Isreali mouth pieces on twitter reacted, “Islamic terror attack on Ireland” that’s what Ireland gets Etc.. Etc..