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British website is new home of far right

A BRITISH-BASED website has become the new home of the far right, terrorists and dangerous conspiracy theorists, researchers have claimed.

BitChute, which is registered in Britain, was set up in 2017 as a self-described “free speech” website to circumvent bans imposed by other mainstream platforms. 

But researchers at anti-extremist group Hope not Hate claim that the site’s lax approach is allowing anti-semitic, racist and dangerous material to proliferate there. 

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