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It has become a national security concern in the aftermath of the recent UK race riots which were almost entirely amplified by Twitter/X [0][1][2] [0] - https:
by alephnerd 2y ago
It has become a national security concern in the aftermath of the recent UK race riots which were almost entirely amplified by Twitter/X [0][1][2]
[0] - https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/from-rumours-to-riots-how-online-misinformation-fuelled-violence-in-the-aftermath-of-the-southport-attack/ https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/from-rumours-to...
[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/business/uk-riots-social-media.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/02/business/uk-riots-social-...
[2] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/31/southport-stabbing-riot-misinformation/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/07/31/southport-st...
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- bratbag 2y agoThe offender was a Christian born and raised in the UK. Social media amplified a false narrative of them being a Muslim illegal immigrant. So now rioters are attacking innocent Muslims and their places of worship.
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- segasaturn 2y agoWhy do you believe the offender's name is relevant?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- kr0bat 2y agoThe picture painted was accurate and relevant > Self-described ‘news’ accounts rapidly spread falsehoods around the perpetrator. One viral narrative falsely named him as “Ali al-Shakati”, a Muslim migrant new to the UK. This was later debunked by the police. Nonetheless, false claims surrounding the attack quickly garnered millions of views online, galvanised by anti-Muslim and anti-migrant activists and promoted by platforms’ recommender systems.
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- jandrese 2y agoCan you tell us what it is really about then?
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- jandrese 2y ago"It is illegal for me to explain my position" is some grade-A bullshit my friend. I'm still laughing at the sheer chutzpah at trying to make that argument. It's got that "I can't fight you because my fists are classified as deadly weapons by the government" level of teenager argument.
- Dig1t 2y agoThere are plenty of examples of people being arrested for expressing anti-immigrant sentiments in the UK. Here’s one example but there are thousands of examples like this. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714445/amp/Crackdown-armchair-thugs-Man-charged-man-woman-arrested-trying-stir-hatred-Snapchat-Facebook-posts.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13714445/amp/Crackd...
- jandrese 2y agoObviously because the name looks foreign they must be Muslim. That's how it works. Nevermind that Rwanda is like 90% Christian.
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- jandrese 2y agoIf you think the message that he was a Muslim immigrant murderer had no effect on these protests I have a bridge to sell you.
- bartforreal 2y ago[dead]
- anigbrowl 2y agoYou know perfectly well that the rioters attacked a local mosque before the stabber's identity was revealed.
- anigbrowl 2y agoThat doesn't make him a Muslim.
- alephnerd 2y agoYet there were multiple instances of rioters checking whether car passengers were white or non-white with the threat of violence [0], mobs attempting to pull foreign origin drivers out of their car [1], and multiple attempts to burn down hotels that housed asylum seekers [2][3]. In most these cases, they were aimed at Brown/"Muslim looking" people, with the slur "Paki" heavily utilized. All of those are felonies that would be tried as attempted murder in the US (and absolutely will be in the UK as well). [0] - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/far-right-race-riot-uk-b2591803.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/far-right-ra... [1] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj622z0w7n0o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj622z0w7n0o [2] - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjww791xnlo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjww791xnlo [3] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/rioters-try-to-torch-rotherham-asylum-seeker-hotel-amid-far-right-violence https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/04/riot...
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- random9749832 2y agoWe can all see you have zero intellectual honesty, but I still can't help but ask; with your finite time what do you think you are achieving here?
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- dcminter 2y agoOne person, a British national born in Britain, not muslim. The riots were driven by rumours conflicting with these facts rapidly spreading on social media.
- bun_terminator 2y ago[flagged]
- dcminter 2y agoThe rumours saying that a muslim immigrant had committed the stabbing were not in any sense "true" My great grandfather came from what is now Czechia. If I commit a crime would one blame immigration? Would rumours that an Eastern european committed it be "true" ? The riots were driven by racism and anti immigrant sentiment inflated by social media rumour-mongering.
- 8note 2y agoCan you be more specific? What's the rumor, and what is true about it? What connection does the true rumor have to attacking Muslims?
- anigbrowl 2y agoDon't post disingenuous arguments. You know perfectly what the difference between triggered and amplified is.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- adolph 2y agoIn the first link: In a now-deleted post, one X user shared a screenshot of a LinkedIn post from a man who claimed to be the parent of two children present at the attack. . . . Meanwhile on TikTok, search results for “Southport” recommended “Ali al-Shakati arrested in Southport” as a suggested query that “Others searched for”. TFA is about "bot-like accounts" but the UK issue seems to be with authentic users. Given evidence of a problem broader than just X, what makes X more of a natsec issue than externally engineered social network applications in general?