UK Riot

Over the past 12 days, the UK has been rocked by a shocking wave of far-right riots which have highlighted the dangerously symbiotic relationship between online extremism and real world violence. As those up and down the UK and around the world sought to make sense of the violence, ISD analysts have provided commentary to a broad range of media including the BBC's Today programme on the growth of the UK far-right and BBC Newsnight on the radicalisation of young men; the New York Times on social media platforms' failure to enforce their terms of service; and CNN on the role algorithms played in amplifying dangerous false claims.