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The chilling rise of ‘IRA TikTok’

The chilling rise of ‘IRA TikTok’

6 March 2021

9:00 AM

6 March 2021

9:00 AM

There’s an ever shorter period now, it seems, between the emergence of any new medium and its energetic use for promoting hatred. And no one can accuse the young fans of militant Irish republicanism of not keeping up with the times: the proliferation of ‘IRA TikTok’ is a case in point.

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