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UK police monitoring TikTok for evidence of criminality at far-right riots
Footage of disorder can reach hundreds of thousands of viewers and often shows faces of those committing crimes
Another stream from Middlesbrough had 4,000 people watching footage of individuals asking car drivers whether they were white before allowing them to drive down a street – while an off-camera voice shouted “can’t do shit, can’t do nothing” at a line of riot police standing nearby. This time the police are benefiting from the public’s growing tendency to livestream anything of note, aided by improved technology and mobile network capacity enabling people to broadcast their potentially criminal activity. This allows members of the public to rapidly build live audiences comparable with television news channels, even if the user doing the filming does not have an existing following on the platform.
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