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@thenerve_news @johnsweeneyroar Far from it if anything his words or rather those of his miniins seek to incite and inflame which can lead to bloodshed.
Farage is too clever to go that far himself - he allows others to sacrifice themselves
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“Farage sells not snake oil but dark nostalgia. Things were so much better in the old days. Vote Farage and, lo, your sundial will wind backwards”: the Nerve’s Reform correspondent @johnsweeneyroar on the ‘dark genius’ of Nigel Farage https://t.co/hyR6eE7RTI
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Palantir, Anduril, Cellebrite and others supply America’s deportation machine. They also hold UK contracts with the Home Office, MoD and police – offering surveillance capabilities that a Reform government would inherit. @mc00 reports https://t.co/gU1D1i6kxA
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NEW Stewart Lee column
Ofcom has ruled against me over a mistake about an ex-Tufton Street campaign manager on a comedy show. The consequences seems like bad news for off-the-cuff banter
https://t.co/NOOVAO3QSv https://t.co/db6sxsi4Vl
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“Losing a loved one to online harms in 2022, I’ve witnessed firsthand the most devastating impacts of unregulated social media”: Adele Walton on the bittersweet spectacle of Meta’s historic $18bn lawsuit https://t.co/dXyHu5N8rj
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@thenerve_news @carolecadwalla https://t.co/KW8VXOpgPL
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12/ Carole co-founded the Nerve with the Observer team that worked on her investigations for the past decade.
We refuse to let the pattern of legal threats stop us.
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11/ Farage, Banks and Wigmore deny any wrongdoing.
Read Carole’s piece in full here.
https://t.co/Rixn9Q676F
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2/ This article lays out the story of how Carole has been tracking Nigel Farage since Brexit, how our institutions – including the media – went missing in action. And how being personally sued by Brexit’s major funder seemed to have a chilling effect.
https://t.co/Rixn9Q676F
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3/ Excerpts from the piece follow, but we urge you to read the piece in full. It’s an indictment of British institutional failure – and an audit of the many unanswered questions that remain about Farage, about Brexit – and about how our political system is funded. https://t.co/Mp
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NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way https://t.co/TGsei3vPT1
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Against accounts of the same size
8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views3 384this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %8.59%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.13%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 3 384 | 924 | 3.66× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 8.59% | 3.62% | 2.37× |
| Engagement rate | 1.13% | 1.52% | 0.74× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
65719 Jul
602
645
2.2K
2.1K
206
4.4K28 Aug
7.7K30 Aug
6.4K31 Aug
13.3K3 Sep
2.4K
180
2.3K
9874 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
9.74%19 Jul
10.30%
10.39%
3.65%
3.69%
6.31%
1.04%28 Aug
2.44%30 Aug
3.29%31 Aug
1.11%3 Sep
1.15%
1.11%
1.15%
0.20%4 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes64.0%2 377 in total
Reposts30.2%1 124 in total
Replies1.5%54 in total
Quotes0.8%28 in total
Bookmarks3.6%133 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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