Policing riots cost 31.7m and bots turbo-charged' misinformation, chiefs reveal
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The vast majority of that messaging, which was problematic online, was domestic, driven by people who lived in our communities, who were stoking fear in those communities.
As we were tracking the amount of traffic, hateful traffic, during the 24-hour period across the days, we would see tremendous spikes as around midnight, bots kicked in.
It is unhelpful when people who I suspect fully well know what the constraints are on reporting during ongoing legal proceedings, point to limited disclosures as evidence of cover up.
Nine in ten rioters were male and almost half were aged 18 to 35 years old, according to new figures on the unrest from the N.
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