Following a fatal knife attack in Southport last week, protests across the country, with links to the far-right and anti-immigrant groups, spiralled into violent unrest as they clashed with police.
An analysis of social media data by Sky News shows that the far-right anti-immigrant movement has had far greater reach and popularity across all social media platforms than the pro-immigrant anti-racist movement in the past week. Anti-racist organisers, led in large part by the groups Stand Up To Racism and Hope Not Hate, have mobilised to counteract the right-wing demonstrations that began last week, in response to the attack in Southport that left three children dead on 29 July.
Two-tier policing is a phrase that has been used to suggest that police have been more heavy-handed with people on the right of the political spectrum. In the days that followed, the number of posts using these hashtags diminished, but as more protests are expected, this could just as quickly tick back up. Data also shows that posts that used anti-immigrant hashtags were engaged with approximately four million times between 29 July and 7 August.
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