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The Real ‘Two Tier’ Politics That Enabled Nigel Farage to Fan the Flames of Hate

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58% Informative

A prominent British Muslim politician with a huge personal following led many of his followers to believe that the perpetrators of this horrendous crime were the very same white Christians he had previously whipped up fear and hatred about.

Now imagine that in the wake of helping to spread this dangerous disinformation, large numbers of this politicians’ fellow travellers then took to the streets to seek violent revenge against white people in general.

Parts of the British media have directly helped to fan the flames of racist hate.

Yet unlike other forms of extremism, the right-wing press has long been given a free pass in the UK .

Just last year , Rishi Sunak’s Government published a review suggesting that there had in fact been too much focus’ on tackling the far-right threat, as well as prominent commentators pushing anti-migrant ideology.

VR Score

42

Informative language

29

Neutral language

35

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

59

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

possibly hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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