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Lizzie Dearden
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I'm finding it difficult to believe that Twitter algorithms or chance brought Katie Hopkins to Donald Trump's attention, so how is it happening?

How did he come to retweet Britain First leader Jayda Fransen in 2017? Why did his son tweet in support of Tommy Robinson last year?
By accident or design, the ideological alignment between the Trump White House and the anti-Islam wing of Britain's far-right is there for all to see

Already gaining support in the UK, Hopkins et al will be growing their American following today

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Worth noting that as well as rabid Islamophobia, Hopkins spreads the white genocide conspiracy theory that inspired Christchurch shooter

She has links with white nationalists Generation Identity, who are being investigated over donation from terrorist

independent.co.uk/news/world/aus…
Another quality Trump shares with all of the above extremists are frequent attacks on Sadiq Khan

The London mayor has become a global lightning rod for racists and conspiracy theorists, who often attempt to disguise their bigotry as concerns over crime

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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Lizzie Dearden
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Tommy Robinson has characterised his case as an establishment crackdown, but his Facebook live posed a real threat to actual victims

For the first time, The Independent can reveal how close he came to causing the Huddersfield grooming trials to collapse

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The defendants had been split into three trials for practicality, meaning that evidence, witnesses and victims would crossover

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When Robinson broke it in such extraordinary fashion - a Facebook live video viewed by 10,000 people in real-time and millions since - it was at a particularly sensitive phase

The jury was out in the second trial, with first group awaiting sentence and the third yet to come
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Lizzie Dearden
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A man has admitted assaulting Nigel Farage by throwing a milkshake over him in Newcastle

Paul Crowther pleaded guilty to common assault and criminal damage at North Tyneside Magistrates' Court

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
District Judge Bernard Begley has indicated that he will not jail Crowther and impose a community sentence instead

The hearing has been adjourned and will continue later
CPS hopes the case “acts as deterrent to others considering criminal form of political protest”

“People should be free to conduct legitimate political campaigns without fear of physical assault...is appropriate to bring charges where protests cross line into criminal behaviour”
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Lizzie Dearden
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Astounding evidence coming out of the London Bridge attack inquest today - Khuram Butt passed TfL background checks to work on Tube *after* appearing in jihadi documentary, being reported to anti-terrorist hotline and years involvemed with Anjem Choudary

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Cross-checks with MI5's internal review of failures showed that he was also supposedly under surveillance for suspected ATTACK PLANNING when he started working on the Tube

independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
Butt is a low-level example of the crime-terror nexus @PeterRNeumann

He had been a cannabis-smoking "party animal", had been arrested for fraud, suspected of stealing iPad by posing as a taxi driver and "made cash by obtaining mobile phones and selling them on Gumtree"
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Based on this nbc data you can still find lots of bot/troll accounts twitter missed.
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the accounts all "look" the same, low status counts, low follower counts, created at the same tnbcnews.com/tech/social-me…gbquNiCcd2
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