Far-right Facebook groups are engine of radicalisation in UK, data investigation suggests | The far right

A Guardian investigation, a far -right Facebook groups network, hundreds of thousands of British exposure to racist and extremist disinformation and have become the “motor of radicalization”.

Gulled by ordinary members of the people, many of which are retirement age, are a harsh immigration and a bed of racist language where online hatred are not apparently controlled.

Guardian’s data project that lasted for months reviewing experts, such groups, such as people last year’s summer uprisings such as helping to create an online environment that can radically said, he said.

The Network emerges only weeks after the landing of 150,000 protesters from all over the country to a far right protest, where the police have been predicted and shocked politicians with their size and toxicity politicians.

Guardian’s Data Projects team described groups from the profiles of the participants who followed the murder of three girls in Southport last summer.

An ecosystem in which the mainstream politicians are defined as “traitors”, “traitors” and “filth ında emerged from them, the courts and the police are engaged in“ two -layer ”justice and a“ taxi service ”.

Guardian analyzed more than 51,000 text broadcasts from the three largest public groups on the network.

This said that experts were peppers with false information and conspiracy theories, including the use of extreme right tropics, racist slurry and evidence of white nativism.

An important element of the success of the network is the managers of the groups-a team of mostly responsible for gruba invitations, a team of mostly responsible for moderate facebook users, the moderation of the extreme right language and the rumor and the spread of misinformation to other groups in the network.

Research showed that they were mostly scattered to England and Wales in southeast of England and Midlands.

They come from a large city house overlooking the sea on the southern coast, from a large city house to a large city house overlooking Loughborough and a small red brick council house in Urban Birmingham.

He said that Guardian would not speak in the records, but that the right users were deleted and blocked by the groups of the groups of the groups of Leicestershire, who supervised approximately 400,000 members and six groups, including Nigel Farage for PM ”.

However, he found examples of extreme right tasks, including investigation, disinformation and well -known rotten conspiracy narratives, some of them had small variations in written or more than one connection group.

Immigrants come for the most vituperative language such as demonization and destruction such as “guilty”, “parasites”, “primitive”, “lice”.

Muslims are defined as “barbarian and intolerance”, “an army”, “archaic”, “medieval” and “England’s lifestyle”.

He read an article: “We need a humongo comb to scrape his length and chest. [sic] Britain, once and for everyone to get rid of all blood sucking lice for everyone !! “

Another reading: “Our government put these primitive -minded people at risk by allowing our lands to our land.”

Another user said: “If you think that the migration is bad. Then wait until all our towns and cities are full! And they begin to infiltrate our Silent Silent Small Villages and bring all their crimes and third world culture with them.”

Guardian’s investigation into these major popular forums creates a new light on the extremely right disinformation scale, which seems to have spread industrially in social media groups.

The content shared in the groups has new concerns about moderate policies after explaining the comprehensive content control changes of Meta.

In the past, online extreme right ideas have emerged outside the more easily related platforms with this part of the political spectrum such as 4Chan, Parler and Telegram, which usually host young audiences.

On Facebook, Tuck is one of the more than 40 people who act as a moderator or manager of one or more of the three groups analyzed by Guardian, which is a mixture of men and women over 60 years of age.

Dr. Strategic Dialogue Institute and a radicalization researcher at the online radicalization specialist. Julia Ebner said that such areas act as a reproductive area for extremist ideologies and “definitely play a role in the radicalization of individuals”.

“The new, online areas strengthen most of these dynamics,” he said.

“Algorithmic amplification, the speed of access to the radicalization motor of people. Then there are new technologies from fabrication videos to deep teeth and bot automation.

“The digital age means that they trust or spread to the content produced or spread by individual accounts by those who are more affected by the tendency to trust the accounts of established institutions, regardless of their ideological tendencies.”

META, the owner of Facebook, examined the three groups used in Guardian’s analysis, and a spokesman confirmed that content did not violate the hateful behavior policy.

The combined member of the groups in the groups took place on 611.289, as recorded by the methodology of Guardian on 29 July 2025: However, this figure can almost certainly become a member of more than one group of individuals.

Full methodology, which includes the use of Openai’s API, can be found here. Guardian’s productive AI principles can be found here.