{"id":20245,"date":"2025-09-28T11:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/reading-the-post-riot-posts-how-we-traced-far-right-radicalisation-across-51000-facebook-messages\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T11:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T09:37:43","slug":"reading-the-post-riot-posts-how-we-traced-far-right-radicalisation-across-51000-facebook-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/reading-the-post-riot-posts-how-we-traced-far-right-radicalisation-across-51000-facebook-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/28\/far-right-facebook-groups-are-engine-of-radicalisation-in-uk-data-investigation-suggests\">Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/sep\/28\/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow\">Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to the summer 2024 riots. A small number of them were charged for offences related to their online activity.<\/p>\n<p>Their jail sentences \u2013 which ranged from 12 weeks to seven years \u2013 became a flashpoint for online criticism. The people behind the <strong> <\/strong>posts were variously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/JordanPeterson\/comments\/1eo9j2l\/20_months_in_prison_for_a_facebook_post_6_days\/\">defended<\/a>, held up as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/sep\/02\/two-tier-britain-how-lucy-connolly-became-a-cause-celebre-for-the-right\">cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/a> and cast as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2024\/oct\/09\/far-right-activists-fundraising-for-people-jailed-over-uk-riots\">political prisoners<\/a>\u201d; their posts <a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/newsroom\/jailing-brits-for-facebook-posts-isnt-justice\/\">minimised<\/a> and repeated; their prosecution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/fact-check\/man-charged-over-stirring-racial-hate-not-anti-establishment-rhetoric-2024-08-20\/\">misrepresented<\/a> as an attack on free speech (the majority of those prosecuted for online offences faced charges of stirring up racial hatred).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accuracy<\/strong> (percentage of correctly classified instances): <strong>94.7%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Precision<\/strong> (percentage of times the True labels assigned by GPT are correct): <strong>79.5<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recall<\/strong> (percentage of instances classified as True by the humans that were also classified as True by GPT):<strong> 86.1%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>F1<\/strong> (a single percentage that combines precision and recall, higher when GPT both finds the True cases and avoids false alarms): <strong>82.6%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/28\/reading-the-post-riot-posts-how-we-traced-far-right-radicalisation-across-51000-facebook-messages\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6f558a04e3653c09f5ddd15ec9d64bb784a6a550\/416_0_4840_3872\/master\/4840.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c727afdd5a4911453b43a4a212584a3e\" title=\"Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages\" \/>Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment<\/p>\n<p>Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests<br \/>\nInside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to the summer 2024 riots. A small number of them were charged for offences related to their online activity.<br \/>\nTheir jail sentences \u2013 which ranged from 12 weeks to seven years \u2013 became a flashpoint for online criticism. The people behind the  posts were variously defended, held up as a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre and cast as \u201cpolitical prisoners\u201d; their posts minimised and repeated; their prosecution misrepresented as an attack on free speech (the majority of those prosecuted for online offences faced charges of stirring up racial hatred).<br \/>\nAccuracy (percentage of correctly classified instances): 94.7%.<br \/>\nPrecision (percentage of times the True labels assigned by GPT are correct): 79.5.<br \/>\nRecall (percentage of instances classified as True by the humans that were also classified as True by GPT): 86.1%.<br \/>\nF1 (a single percentage that combines precision and recall, higher when GPT both finds the True cases and avoids false alarms): 82.6%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow More than 1,100 people have been charged in connection to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/reading-the-post-riot-posts-how-we-traced-far-right-radicalisation-across-51000-facebook-messages\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20246,"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\/20245"}],"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=20245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}