How social media fuelled antisemitic violence in Dagestan, Russia

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1970-01-01 08:00

Before an outburst of violence, Telegram channels spread hate speech. The BBC has tracked messages inciting the public to gather at an airport where a flight from Tel Aviv was arriving.

On Sunday morning, details of a flight arriving later that day from Tel Aviv were posted on a popular channel on Telegram in Dagestan, a diverse region in the most southerly point of Russia.

The channel on the social media platform was called Morning Dagestan (Utro Dagestan). It urged its followers...