Far-right protestors are trying to share violent rhetoric on social media. For the first time, Telegram is blocking them—while X is giving them a platform.
As asylum centers are boarding up ahead of another predicted day of violent protests across the UK on Wednesday, X owner Elon Musk has stoked tensions by labeling UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer “#TwoTierKier” and spreading a far-right conspiracy theory that claims that white rioters are being dealt with more severely than minorities by police.
” A spokesperson told WIRED the Home Office could not comment on whether they had called for the Stockport Wakeup telegram channel to be blocked, as “it’s an operational issue.” Many far-right figures had migrated to Telegram in recent years after being kicked off all other platforms because of Telegram’s notoriously lax approach to censorship.
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