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Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday August 16th, 2024. This is the

excerpt. Today we take a closer look at violence in Britain and whether similar tensions could

spill over stateside plus a grim milestone has reached in Gaza and how foreign

players are getting involved in the 2024 election cycle.

Recent riots in the UK were spurred by racist posts on social media and experts warn of a repeat in the US. I spoke with USA Today

National Correspondent Will Carless for more. Well thanks for making the time.

Thanks for having me on Taylor. So well let's just start with some of the basics here for folks who may not have been following

this story.

What happened at this Taylor Swift dance class earlier this summer outside Liverpool.

So on the 29th of July in a small town called Southport on the north western coast of England,

there was a large group of girls attending a Taylor Swift theme dance class and a young man, a 17 year old,

kind of burst into the class and essentially just started stabbing children, started stabbing people with a knife.

By the time the attack had ended he had killed three little girls and injured another eight children and two adults.

A really horrendous event in a country that doesn't see a whole lot of

mass violent attacks like this and then of course there was some pretty bad fallout from it as well.

Yeah, so Will, what have we seen in the week since with these violent outbursts around Britain?

In the hours and days after the attack, a bunch of misinformation and lies started spreading

across social media, particularly on X but also on Tik-Tok and

Instagram. These lies essentially centered around the rumor that the man who had done this

attack was a recently arrived Muslim illegal immigrant who had

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