Simon Harris did not hold back this week when he called out social media companies for failing to police their platforms for illegal or inciteful content. Belfast is reckoning with the aftermath of days of racially-charged violence on its streets with businesses owned by ethnic minorities targeted, all the while the UK deals with several days of racist and anti-immigrant rioting in numerous towns and cities. It brings to mind the horrors that played out on Dublin’s streets last November. Much of this activity is charged and stoked by online disinformation by far-right groups and it has put social media…

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