{"id":20251,"date":"2025-09-29T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:37:22","slug":"inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation<\/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<\/ul>\n<p>Far-right ideas are gaining ground. They are thriving in online worlds which are not easily visible to large swathes of the public but which spread misinformation that has real-world consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Take last year. In the summer of 2024, riots broke out across parts of the UK, fuelled by misinformation that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/article\/2024\/aug\/03\/a-polarisation-engine-how-social-media-has-created-a-perfect-storm-for-uks-far-right-riots\">spread on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/ng-interactive\/2025\/sep\/28\/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c503514b4c62e6fface446b85b9e70568eb8de19\/1_0_4998_4000\/master\/4998.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=15866ae31c112311e83a1809f4499051\" title=\"Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow\" \/>The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation<br \/>\nFar-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests<br \/>\nFar-right ideas are gaining ground. They are thriving in online worlds which are not easily visible to large swathes of the public but which spread misinformation that has real-world consequences.<br \/>\nTake last year. In the summer of 2024, riots broke out across parts of the UK, fuelled by misinformation that spread on social media. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests Far-right ideas are gaining ground. They are thriving in online worlds which are not easily visible to large &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/inside-the-everyday-facebook-networks-where-far-right-ideas-grow\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20252,"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\/20251"}],"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=20251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}