Did the Media Refuse to Cover Massive Crowds in England Chanting ‘We Love Trump’? On June 4 2019, Facebook user James Johnson shared a video (archived here) purportedly showing large crowds of supporters shouting “we love Trump.” He then claimed that news outlets in the United Kingdom and United States deliberately refused to air the footage: https://www.facebook.com/jamesjohnson391/videos/2338234646199602/ Attached to the video was a status update: Massive crowd in the […]
Tommy Robinson Banned from Facebook, Instagram On February 26 2019, British professional provocateur and far-right activist Tommy Robinson (née Steven Yaxley-Lennon) — perhaps best known for his involvement with disinformation purveyors such as political party (and Brexit architects) UKIP and the anti-Islam English Defence League — was widely rumored to have been banned from social media sites Facebook and Instagram. News organizations […]
Did Muslim Men Attack a UK Serviceman on New Year’s Eve? On January 1, 2019, British far-right activist Tommy Robinson (née Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon) shared a post with photographs of an injured man, claiming that fifteen Muslim men had seriously assaulted a British serviceman one day prior in Batley: I have been informed by his family that this serving soldier was out celebrating the new year in Batley […]
