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Racial abuse on social media

The use of social media to facilitate racial abuse, and the investigation of such incidents by parliamentary standards mechanisms and platform rules.

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Jan 29, 2026

How have social media profiles been used in news reporting to establish suspects' political motivations in similar incidents?

Newsrooms increasingly turn to suspects’ profiles as quick documentary evidence of political motives, citing posts, likes, follows and affiliations to explain why an incident occurred; empirical resea...

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