Amnesty International criticizes Elon Musk's X for fueling misinformation and racially charged violence during the 2024 UK Southport riots. Their report highlights X's algorithm promoting outrage over safety, intensifying anti-Muslim and anti-migrant hate. Calls grow for stronger Online Safety Act enforcement. 🗣️🔥 #OnlineSafety #HumanRights #UKRiots #newz

Read more: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/amnesty_x_uk_riots/

Amnesty slams Elon Musk's X for 'central role' in fueling 2024 UK riots

: Human rights org calls for greater accountability and stronger enforcement of Online Safety Act

The Register

Man will forever regret his 'seconds of madness' after finishing his shift at a pub

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-forever-regret-seconds-madness-31248889

Man will forever regret his 'seconds of madness' after finishing his shift at a pub

Corneliu Magureanu's mum said "I'm not going out. Where is he?" after her son was led to the cells

Manchester Evening News
The laughing girls 'lucky' to avoid jail after being snapped on camera

One helped herself to a basketful of items and her antics on TikTok

Manchester Evening News
#BBCNews - Children joined riots for the 'thrill', report says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge72gxryqpo
At least 147 children arrested and 84 charged since the riots, some as young as 12 sentenced
#UKRiots #Southport
Children joined riots for the 'thrill', report says

The children's commissioner says children often made impulsive decisions to become involved in the riots.

Joe Marsh (aka Jeff Marsh), who served 2 years in prison for stabbing 2 #manutd fans said

"If you didn't have Jamaicans and Africans here stabbing people, we wouldn't have any knife crime,"

#FarRight #UKRiots #PatrioticAlternative

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8xykr5v95o

BBC investigation exposes 'far-right' group in secret filming

Undercover reporter infiltrated far-right group and exposed group's extreme views in secret filming.

BBC News
Southport trial: Knife attacker pleads guilty to murdering three girls

Axel Rudakubana, 18, admits murdering three girls at a dance class in Southport last July.

#BBCNews - Rioter who featured in viral bricking video jailed
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gp5n1qn8yo
#UKRiots #Southport
Southport riots: Viral bricking video rioter jailed

Brian Spencer, 40, featured in a viral video of him being hit in the crotch and head by "wayward" bricks during a riot.

Spellow Hub is back open

with a few hundred mates you could borrow the entire lending stock of this tiny library

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk0nk4z25zo

#UKRiots #Spellow #SpellowHub #Liverpool #CountyRoad

Liverpool: Riot-hit Spellow Lane library reopens after huge community effort

Poem readings took place at the ceremony attended by community leaders and first responders.

BBC News
Levi Fishlock: Man gets joint-longest sentence for summer riots

Levi Fishlock is jailed for nine years for his part in an attack on a hotel housing asylum seekers.

"About half of Britain considers itself to have a working class background. And yet only 8% of those who get jobs in telly are from the same background."

"Over the five years from 2018, distrust in the BBC had grown from 11% to 26%."

Carol Vorderman: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/08/30/carol-vorderman-alternative-mactaggart-speech-tv-industry/

#depoliticisation #media #London #Britain #UK #UKPol #discriminations #classism #snobs #privilege #bourgeoisie #middleClass #TV #television #UKRiots #power #broadcast #Channel4 #CarolVorderman

Everything that is Wrong with the TV Industry and Why No One is Watching the News

Carol Vorderman's Alternative Mactaggart lecture on how snobbery turned people off TV

Byline Times