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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Raphael Hernandes, Elena Morresi, Robyn Vinter and Pamela Duncan

Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests

A person from the back looking at Facebook comments
The groups are a hotbed of hardline anti-immigration and racist language. Composite: Getty / The Guardian / Guardian Design

A network of far-right Facebook groups is exposing hundreds of thousands of Britons to racist and extremist disinformation and has become an “engine of radicalisation”, a Guardian investigation suggests.

Run by otherwise ordinary members of the public – many of whom are of retirement age – the groups are a hotbed of hardline anti-immigration and racist language, where online hate goes apparently unchecked.

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