{"id":15369,"date":"2024-08-02T04:37:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T02:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T04:37:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T02:37:32","slug":"how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence\/","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><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a3256d2a4e882e02e20435be0e8e7785964d4950\/0_59_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=32fdec114ad4a90ce5245975f4f7b284\" title=\"How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence\" \/>Experts warn growth of extremist influencers and \u2018micro-donations\u2019 could create even bigger wave of unrest<br \/>\nLess 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.<br \/>\nThe 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. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","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<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/02\/how-tiktok-bots-and-ai-have-powered-a-resurgence-in-uk-far-right-violence\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}