Ed Harrison @edharrison94.bsky.social · 23/10/2025We map how support for “mass deportations” spread on X in the year up to Reform’s recent policy u-turn. Circles = users; colours = sub-communities 010
Ed Harrison @edharrison94.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Social media, particularly X, is becoming increasingly influential in shaping political discourse. In this piece for @uk.theconversation.com we explore how the online right is using it to shift the Overton window and influence Reform policy. theconversation.com/inside-the-f...theconversation.comInside the far-right social media ecosystem normalising extremist ideas in UK politicsA process of normalisation has led Reform to propose mass deportations where once it believed such a policy would never be politically viable. 140