What’s behind the spread of violent far-right protests in the UK? | Inside Story
Days of rioting in England and Belfast.
Social media has been used by the far-right to spread rumours about immigrants and organise protests that have become violent. Thousands of police officers are on alert. So what's behind the surge in violence? Presenter: Mohammed Jamjoom Guests: Shabna Begum, Chief Executive Officer of the Runnymede Trust, a British race equality and civil rights think tank. Katy Brown is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Maynooth University in Ireland focusing on mainstream far-right discourse. Sohan Dsouza is a computational social scientist, studying links between disinformation and political extremism. Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #UnitedKingdom #UK #SouthportStabbing #AxelRudakubana #UKProtests #UKRiots #LiverpoolProtests #BelfastProtests #UKFarRightProtests #UKUnrest #UKPrimeMinister #KeirStarmer #UKPolitics #UKKnifeAttacks #Islamophobia #AlJazeeraEnglish
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