Posted on 08/05/2024 3:40:13 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Foreign state actors may be amplifying online disinformation that has fuelled a week of riots on the streets of Britain, Downing Street has suggested.
Russian state media were among those sharing false claims that the suspect accused of killing three young girls in Southport last Monday was an asylum seeker who had arrived in the UK on a small boat.
Channel3Now, which purports to be a legitimate American news outlet but acts as an “aggregator” for fake claims, wrongly named the attacker as Ali Al-Shakati, believed to be a fictitious name. The subsequent unrest has prompted calls for greater efforts in the fight against fake news.
Asked whether foreign states were behind the spread of disinformation online, Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said: “I think some of this is public information that clearly we have seen bot activity online, much of which may well be amplified with the involvement of state actors amplifying some of the disinformation and misinformation that we’ve seen.
“And that is something that the NCA [National Crime Agency] and DSIT [Department for Science, Innovation and Technology] are looking at in relation to what we’ve seen online. I obviously can’t get into more detail than that, but it is clearly something that is being looked at.”
The spokesman declined to single out any particular states, but added: “The disinformation that we’ve seen online attracts amplification from known bot activity, which, as I say, can be linked to state-backed activity.”
The false Russian claim about the Southport attacks was picked up by far-Right figures including Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the former leader of the English Defence League.
The Prime Minister’s spokesman told reporters: “Anyone who stokes this violence, whether on the internet or in person, can be prosecuted and face prison.”
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Starmer is steadily morphing into Maduro.
Putin!
Kier Starmer is a totalitarian genocide freak who needs to be strung up with piano wire.
Very wiley of those foreign influencers, making the muzzies in England rape and murder little white girls while the English bobbies rub on their nightsticks. Very wiley.
Or…. Three cute little innocent white children were murdered by a Muslim extremist..
By his circular reproductive units.
The Brit Prime Minister is “out to get” anyone who stokes the violence, whether on the internet or in person; will be summarily prosecuted and face prison.
(He doesnt mean the killer-——he means he’ll imprison the conservative citizens angered by the killings.)
vikingd00d nails it
Quoting Bleeding heart PM: ”People in the UK (who kill) have a right to be safe,
and yet we’ve seen Muslim communities targeted, and attacks on mosques.”
How about innocent little girls at a dance party, three of them stabbed to death?
Don’t they have a right to be safe?
so those kids weren’t killed by an illegal??
Well this didn’t take long. I
Well this didn’t take long.
You’re doing a great job of it by yourself. His bias against native Brits is unbelievable.
Starmer is fueling the riots, in the same way Biden fueled Russia’s war in Ukraine — complete and utter corruption and weakness.
Man, I thought our leaders were bad. My God, this guy is siding with illegal invaders over his own citizens. And by siding, I mean with violence. I’m not a fan of the British normally, but I feel very sad and angry for them now.
#4....Don’t hold back! LOL
Of course. And violent imported savages killing the natives has nothing to do with it...
3 dead little English girls killed by an feral, ungrateful 2nd generation immigrant is a fact and all of the aristocracy and their pet invaders need to be burned off of the fair face of England.
When the globalist scum can’t blame Trump, they blame Putin.
Putin derangement syndrome.
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