Telegram, the platform favored by cybercriminals and disinformation
The instant messaging service’s lax content moderation policy has turned it into a hotbed of criminal activity
‘Beating,’ ‘shit,’ ‘machete’: How the tide of hate on social media soared during the Torre Pacheco crisis due to passivity of platform owners
A monitoring system run by the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion found a 1,500% increase in racist content targeting North Africans after unprovoked assault on an elderly resident
A ‘hunt’ for migrants in the Spanish town of Torre Pacheco triggers fear: ‘There is peace for nobody’
The anti-immigrant protests are targeting a generation of young people born in Spain who are now around 20 years old and have always been marginalized
Inside the private Telegram chat calling for immigrants in Spain to be ‘hunted down’: ‘Arab heads will roll’
The group was abruptly shut down at 8:36 p.m. on Monday for ‘inciting violence’ in the wake of an attack on an elderly man in the town of Torre Pacheco
Torre Pacheco and the breeding of monsters in the West
The xenophobic episode in Spain is part of a broader pattern of reaction in the West that draws on a mixture of material and cultural discontent, spurred by the far right
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