Has anyone written a longread about the radicalisation of middle aged/older british people on Facebook through two distinct but related types of Facebook group:
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The guy who runs that page seems to constantly be on a hair trigger. Wasn't he all defensive cos a lot of the worst comments came from the Lost Edinburgh discussion group rather than the main page itself?
lol yes! it's also rich because the whole inspiration for the piece was that someone i knew joined lost edinburgh and was sending me updates almost EVERY DAY after joining of people posting wildly racist shit including the n-word
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I think the brexit referendum really opened the floodgates on fb
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The equivalent page for birmingham is just as bad, my partner (I stopped using Facebook 4 years ago) unfollowed it a couple of years back as the racism, xenophobia and general bigotry just got worse and worse.
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Sheer level of crossover between those pages and the anti-fan politics meme pages is huge
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