A video of a Belfast knife attack was shared by far-right figures, including Tommy Robinson, and amplified by Elon Musk, helping to fuel anti-migrant rhetoric and violent protests.

Attack was filmed and shared online prompting Elon Musk and others to call for anti-immigration protests

The rapid spread of footage shows how social media is pivotal in enabling far-right agitators to mobilise internationally

Masked youths gathered at points across the city, with police responding by deploying armoured vehicles. Protesters set fire to a number of vehicles, including a bus.

The stabbing has fuelled unrest and warnings against using one crime to target broader communities.

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Riots erupted in Belfast after a man was charged with attempted murder following a knife attack. Protesters set vehicles ablaze, including a bus. Police deployed armoured vehicles…

A Belfast knife attack has become a right-wing social media clarion call to protest against immigration.

Violence erupted in Belfast after a knife attack. Masked individuals targeted homes and vehicles. Families were forced from their houses. Police responded to multiple incidents…

Elon Musk amplifies calls for street protests as violence spirals overnight

Despite calls for calm, masked anti-immigration protesters in Belfast set a bus, vehicles and some homes on fire in what one politician called "a race-based pogrom."

Hundreds of masked men storm through Belfast after Elon Musk and other far-right figures urged protests following alleged stabbing by Sudanese asylum seeker

Ministers have blamed far-right online agitators for stoking racial tension following a stabbing.

A knife attack in Belfast that left a man with life-changing injuries triggered a wave of disorder across Northern Ireland and protests in Scotland, as police, political leaders…

Elon Musk reposted social media messages denouncing the state of the United Kingdom. “Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change,” he wrote.

A video of a Belfast knife attack was shared by far-right figures, including Tommy Robinson, and amplified by Elon Musk, helping to fuel anti-migrant rhetoric and violent protests.

Musk, who shared lists on social media of locations where protests could take place, blamed ‘uncontrolled immigration’ for the unrest.

A 30-year-old Sudanese immigrant identified as Hadi Alodid, suspected of the attack in the north of the city, on Kinnaird Avenue, in which forty-year-old Stephen Ogilvie was…

Politicians in Northern Ireland and the UK are denouncing masked rioters who attacked immigrant families in Belfast. Billionaire Elon Musk incited violence with anti-immigrant…

Online reaction to Belfast event by Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson blamed for riots

Politicians, social media and far-right agitators convinced people that migrant-targeting violence would solve all their problems