Who is behind the Facebook page posting hateful AI hoaxes about Britain? The answer may lie in South Asia | Niamh McIntyre

SScroll through any Facebook feed in the UK and, among the baby announcements and petty neighborhood rants, you’re likely to come across an account with a Union Jack profile picture and a vague, generic name like Britain Today.

These reports – and there are hundreds, possibly thousands – present themselves as the work of British patriots. In a typical AI-generated video, a middle-aged man claims that his local cafe has “stopped serving pork, bacon and sausages just to avoid offending people.” Another post from the same account features a sepia-toned series of images of Victorian London, mourning a time when the city was “English, first world and beautiful.” Besides that kind of reactionary nostalgia It’s not uncommon to see memes that call Islam a “cancer,” denounce Muslims praying in public as an “invasion of the West,” or promote the “great replacement theory” (which claims that white populations are being intentionally replaced by non-white ones…