Disorder in Belfast ‘stoked by those who would struggle to find the city on a map’
by Jamie Grierson and Ben Quinn from World news | The Guardian on (#76717)
Northern Ireland's justice minister says online bad faith actors' have incited racism in city after knife attack
Violence in Belfast that led to families having to flee their homes on Tuesday night was fuelled by online commentators who would struggle to find the city on the map, Northern Ireland's justice minister has said.
The condemnation by Naomi Long came as a UK cabinet minister said that Elon Musk also had a responsibility not to stoke grievance". The billionaire owner of X had used his own account to share images of a horrific knife attack in Belfast on Monday and amplified far-right messaging about it.
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