How ‘verified accounts’ on X fuelled far-right riots in the UK

Lopes Buarque, Beatriz (2025) How ‘verified accounts’ on X fuelled far-right riots in the UK. Media@LSE (19 Nov 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

LSE’s Beatriz Lopes Buarque explains how her research into the role of X in the UK riots of summer 2024 indicated that accounts that had been ‘verified’ by the platform played a significant part in spreading content that incited violence.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2026 13:48
Last Modified:	13 Jan 2026 09:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130557

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