Gardaí have found foreign actors using social media to ‘amplify’ far-right content in Ireland

by Diomas

28 comments
  1. It’s an incredibly obvious, known conclusion – but that’s easy to say from someone Always Online & would regard myself as plugged into these things already.

    Instead, both police services on the island officially confirming this will do a job to remind everyone else about the Bad Actors trying to harm our democracy. It may make folks think twice about reflesively listening to their polemic, knowing it’s foreign bodies trying to trick us.

  2. Is this supposed to be a surprise? Because most people already knew that.

  3. The irony that “foreign” actors are the one’s, egging Irish far right activists on, is sadly completely lost to them….

  4. It’s obvious but it’s also important the Garda and figures in position of power come out saying this regularly

  5. Not as in immigrants or asylum but privileged men in power interfering with Irish politics to suit them i.e. Elon Musk.

  6. Top of the mornin’ to ya. Us Irish love Trump. 🇨🇮

    Mcgregor for prime minister.

  7. You know it’s bad when foreigners are doing the far right out of a job of condemning foreigners…

  8. We also have British nationalists actively helping our local patriots sow division in our society and pollute our national politics.

    Niall McConnell is one such lad who has no problems joining forces with “foreigners” when it suits him, he’s been prepped and possibly bankrolled by anti-Irish British nationalists [Jim Dowson and Nick Griffin](https://imgur.com/s9pYS2H)

    Here he is [abroad with Griffin](https://imgur.com/9tYWQlV) and [here](https://imgur.com/9WgRrUh)

    [Dowson’s and Griffin’s website](https://imgur.com/NOvvEkZ) was very clearly the template for [Niall’s website](https://imgur.com/T1KZ915)

    Niall showing off his [British template merchandise.](https://imgur.com/XRWkNtg)

    They’re even nice enough to [promote their Paddy](https://imgur.com/Z6FUB4D) doing their bidding.

    He’s also a fascist lover of [Neo-Nazi groups like Golden Dawn](https://imgur.com/xTzEFZO) whose leaders were [put in jail for murdering an activist](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-54433396), violent attacks on migrants and forming a criminal gang.

    What really gets my goat about all these “patriots” is how they systematically try to hijack our nation’s iconography, history and culture to allow foreign agitators to manipulate them against ourselves.

    That everyone but these “patriots” are the true Irish while they befriend those who wish to wipe out our progresses that have been hard fought for.

    Fucking traitors.

  9. Elgin Air Force Base (where a CIA base is situated), is the most active settlement on social media, including Reddit. Are we even surprised? The CIA has also been caught using fake accounts to spread anti-Cuban propaganda on Twitter. On top of that, you have Russia, which has the same political alignment as the CIA and USA (capitalism), although with the primary goal of destabilisation.

    Clearly, most of this destabilisation is coming from the United States. Ireland is facing the same meddling that the global south has since the Second World War

  10. considering 75% of Irish web activity is bots, when I see a faceless nameless comment on something I tend to assume it’s a bot

  11. Is this supposed to be a surprise? We have had foreign interference going back many years at this point

  12. You all laugh at pointing out the obvious but sometimes the obvious needs to be pointed out. It’s also good to have confirmation of this instead of it all being basically speculation.

  13. Some of the most overt “Ireland for the Irish” accounts on Twitter, were so obviously American posters.

  14. I would 100% believe this.

    However does anyone else find the Journal.ie coverage of certain hot topics a little disconcerting?

    Perhaps the Journal’s model of funding, (i.e taking money from the government, EU, Google, Foreign Philanthropic organisations etc.), leaves them unable to tackle issues with any level of impartiality or even an open mindedness to explore both sides of an argument.

    Because I don’t think anyone could argue that their “Fact Checker” programme has any validity at all. Utter Balderdash. That’s just my opinion.

  15. This sub has a hard-on for ‘foreign actors’ who smear Irish anti-war politicians, defaming _them_ as being influenced by ‘foreign actors’.

  16. Oh well, colour me shocked. Or should that be color me shocked?

  17. You should see how the foreign actors are using the position of Garda commissioner to protect far right agents, nazis and zionists.

  18. Yeah these folks are Putin and trumps little dumb dumbs for sure, and you know none of these folks have been leaving the island otherwise they would know what a nice place it is. Hate changes the brain.

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