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.
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