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‘A polarisation engine’: how social media has created a ‘perfect storm’ for UK’s far-right riots

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The Dunblane massacre sparked a wave of national revulsion after the massacre.

But experts in domestic extremism say it is all too depressingly familiar.

In our instant information environment, informed by algorithms that send the most shocking, outrageous comments viral, social media is designed to do the exact opposite of bringing unity: it’s a polarisation engine.

The Daily Mail ran a shocked banner headline this week about a single suspicious account on X, with signs it may be based in Russia , spreading false information.

There is still little acknowledgment that what we are witnessing is part of a global phenomenon rising populism and authoritarianism underpinned by deep-rooted structural changes in communication.

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