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recent bookmarks from jmFar-right agitation on Irish social media mainly driven from abroad2023-12-05T11:16:22+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/12/05/most-ireland-is-full-and-irish-lives-matter-online-posts-originate-abroad/
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The research showed the use of the phrases increased dramatically, both in Ireland and abroad, once word started spreading that the suspect in the knife attack was born outside Ireland.
“Users in the UK and US were very, very highly represented. Which was strange because with hashtags that are very geographically specific, you wouldn’t expect to see that kind of spread,” said Mr Doak.
“These three hashtags have been heavily boosted by users in the US and UK. Taken together, UK and US users accounted for more use of the hashtags than Ireland.”
Other countries that saw use of the phrases on a much smaller scale include India, Nigeria and Spain.
]]>ireland politics far-right agitation racism fascism trolls twitter facebook tiktok instagramhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2114c2e28b5d/Some libraries in Ireland are restricting access to young adult LGBTQ+ books, employee says • GCN2023-07-25T13:24:50+00:00
https://gcn.ie/ireland-libraries-restricting-access-lgbtq-young-adult-books/
jmOur source shared that roughly one year ago, the [Irish public library] staff received training about how to provide young LGBTQ+ people with information and support. Now, this staff member feels that the library policy is restricting the same supportive material. Another anonymous source from a different library branch had this to say about the re-classification of young adult books as adult: “It is utterly galling that some Irish libraries have decided to capitulate to what amounts to terror tactics, and in a way that creates a hostile working environment to all LGBT staff who now have to work under these conditions, and are told they are not allowed to talk about it.”
]]>lgbtq books reading education sex-education nazis far-right politics irelandhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:afde0d88edf6/COVID-19, Conspiracy and Ireland’s Far Right2020-04-21T11:20:27+00:00
https://medium.com/@farrightobservatory/covid-19-conspiracy-and-irelands-far-right-3501e07b6756
jmThe COVID19 global pandemic is being used by far right networks to try and pull people into their movements. Several far right groups and actors in Ireland are making explicit attempts to use this crisis for personal and political benefit.
The Irish far right are emulating a global far right movement in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) are calling the Covid infodemic
Conspiracy theories have always been used to create a radicalising pathway by far right movements globally. We are seeing these narrative tactics being used in Ireland in past few months
One Facebook page in Ireland pushing 5G conspiracy theories has had over 73,000 direct interactions with over 1000 posts in the last 4 weeks
Far right actors are using the COVID19 pandemic to undermine trust and solidarity in communities by targetting migrant and minority communities and pushing explicit ethno-nationalist/white supremacist narratives.
(via Andrew Flood)
]]>via:andrewflood conspiracies far-right nazis fascism ireland infodemic covid-19https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eea1f73730b1/"Let Kids Be Kids"2019-11-28T16:22:55+00:00
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1199462554751393792.html
jmfar-right ireland lkbk kids sex-education education schools campaignshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fc4939730c88/The White House is reportedly drafting an order to stop social media ‘bias’ - The Verge2019-08-08T10:32:35+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/7/20759191/white-house-trump-administration-social-media-bias-executive-order-report
jmOne shooting was apparently an act of far-right terrorism, based on an anti-immigrant screed posted online. There was a fine line between its rhetoric and the views of major conservative figures like Tucker Carlson or Trump himself. Preemptively flagging the shooter — or one of several far-right killers before him — could have looked like egregious anti-conservative bias. And since predictive AI has sky-high error rates, it would probably catch a lot of non-violent conservative accounts (alongside those of non-conservatives) purely by accident. That’s already a recipe for a PR disaster, and it gets even dicier if Trump adds new legal punishments.
(via JK)]]>filtering ai terrorism far-right fascism nazis trump twitter social-mediahttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3fe0493a26e9/Facebook's new rules for moderators on dealing with far-right pages are awful2018-07-13T10:27:25+00:00
https://twitter.com/Limerick1914/status/1000039928045146112
jmFacebook: "We allow to call for the creation of white ethno-states."
In other words, Facebook is officially ok with people calling for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
The time for Facebook to hire/consult with experts re: the far-right was about three or four years ago. That they now *agree* with the rationale of Alt-Reich rebranding in 2018 shows that this company is simply not fit for purpose.
[...] t's quite something that Facebook's advice to their moderators literally mirrors Nazi propaganda: "Being interested in and caring for one’s kind is not to disparage foreign peoples and races"- Nazi party pamphlet "Why the Aryan Law?" (1934)
]]>facebook awful moderation far-right nazis fascism ethnic-cleansing genocide social-media failhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bf33119c94cd/