{"id":17472,"date":"2024-08-02T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence-2\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T06:00:55","slug":"how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn growth of extremist influencers and \u2018micro-donations\u2019 could create even bigger wave of unrest<\/p>\n<p>Less than three hours after the stabbing attack on Monday that led to the death of three children, an AI-generated image was shared on X by an account called Europe Invasion. It depicted bearded men in traditional Muslim dress outside the Houses of Parliament, one waving a knife, behind a crying child in a union jack T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet, which has since been viewed 900,000 times, was captioned: \u201cWe must protect our children!\u201d and shared by one of the most potent accounts for misinformation about the Southport stabbings.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/article\/2024\/aug\/02\/how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts warn growth of extremist influencers and \u2018micro-donations\u2019 could create even bigger wave of unrest Less than three hours after the stabbing attack on Monday that led to the death of three children, an AI-generated image was shared on X by an account called Europe Invasion. It depicted bearded men in traditional Muslim dress outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}