Southport riots misinformation ‘turbo charged’ by foreign bots online

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2024-11-20/southport-riots-misinformation-turbo-charged-by-foreign-bots-online

Posted by ICC-u

9 comments

  1. I mean the media, the police, and Labour all lied about his identity. They were the ones spreading Mis-information.

  2. This is only going to get worse under Trump, the US owns our social media.

    The US is about to go insane across the EU and the UK promoting every crazy conspiracy nut, pushing “fear of the other”, filling social media with pro far right rhetoric like you’ve never seen. They’ll be using every minority as a scapegoat to blame for all your problems that were created by those with all the control, power and money.

    Then you have the individuals like Musk and his cohort, using micro targeting and AI to p*ss off every community and selling you the solution to your problems, which will no doubt be Farage and others of his ilk.

  5. Well, this is every single website/app because you allow foreigners to propagate in foreign affairs without any punishment. Such a dangerous game

  6. It’s obviously an issue with me but I don’t think there’s anything I could read online that would make me want to go and smash up the local town centre.

  7. So release the details / facts to the public and put it to rest. When you have someone in a government position saying their is lies and a coverup. That’s going to fuel it.

  8. The Russian troll bots are literally everywhere. Trying to grind down any criticism of the “special military operation”. Most YouTube news channels must be about 50% krembot comments if anything relating to Russia is mentioned. If you took the comments seriously, you’d think everyone in the UK had a serious hard on for Putin and absolutely hated the U.S and Ukraine. And YouTube does Fuck all about it. Sad.

  9. Wasn’t the misinformation largely from the msm using an old school photo of him and the police hiding that they’d found terrorist manuals at his house? Perhaps if they were more honest with people there wouldn’t be such fertile ground for conspiracy theory types.

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