Unrelenting eight days of unrest in the UK as anti-immigration protests saw escalation into violent race riots with over 420 arrested and 140 charged. After sparking chaos nationwide through the spread of misinformation online last week on the tragic Southport knife rampage by a teenager, further violence is being fueled on social media channels.

A list containing the names and addresses of immigration lawyers was shared on the Telegram messaging app before being spread to other platforms.Under advisement by the police, lawyers have been told to board up their office windows and to work remotely.According to the minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Jim McMahon:

“We don't know if they will transpire to be protests like we've seen in other places or whether it's a list that's intended just to cause alarm and distress or even to provoke”.

Speaking to the BBC the Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson warned those engaging online to incite or plan activities:

“If you’re engaged in that activity, then you can be prosecuted for the substantive offence that you have caused (due) to what you’ve been doing using the internet.”

Being abroad will also not make them safe from prosecution as:

“We have liaison prosecutors spread around the globe who've got local links with the local judiciary and law enforcement, but also the police are also stationed abroad.”

On Tuesday Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated that: “We’re doing everything we can to ensure that where a police response is needed, it’s in place, where support is needed for particular places, that that is in place”, after chairing a second Cobra emergency meeting.

Billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X with over 193 million followers, has come under fire for fanning the flames of Britain's race riots in recent days by posting comments, sharing memes and videos on his X platform.

On Sunday he posted how “Civil war is inevitable” responding to a video of lit fires in streets and rioters clashing with the police. A spokesperson for the prime minister stated that Mr. Musk's comments had “no justification”.Musk also referred to the far right’s claim of a two-tier policing whereby their groups are more heavily policed by posting:

“Why aren’t all communities protected in Britain? @Keir_Starmer,” adding “#TwoTierKeir”.

He reposted a video of the arrest of a man for making offensive comments on Facebook and wrote on X:

“Arrested for making comments on Facebook!”

And on Community Notes, a fact checking resource belonging to X:

“Is this Britain or the Soviet Union? Is this accurate @Community Notes.”

Social media platforms like X are being seen to fuel the rise in extremism as seen with the spread of misinformation about the Southport attacker which was enabled on X.

Alleged rapist Andrew Tate, who has nearly 10 million followers on X posted a false image of the would-be attacker with the claim “straight off the boat” despite the police revealing that he was Cardiff born.Musk also reinstated the accounts of people banned on Twitter, now X. Most notably Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson an anti-Islam anti-immigration agitator de facto leader of the now defunct organization English Defence League (EDL).Robinson fled the UK before a high court hearing over contempt of court proceedings and has been abroad since July 28. Photographed from a five-star Ayia Napa all-inclusive hotel in Cyprus, he has continued to stoke the fires with his incendiary online commentary on events in the UK including Southport.

Amidst the chaos of riots and the growth of extremism fuelled online the horrific incident with the tragic loss of three young lives in Southport seems to have become lost.

The inquests into their deaths, held at Bootle Town Hall in Merseyside, were today formally opened and adjourned pending the conclusion of the criminal trial.Senior coroner Julie Goulding told the hearing:

“Impossible to adequately articulate the devastating lifelong effects of the truly tragic events of Monday, July 29 have had and will continue to have on the parents, families and friends of Elsie, Bebe and Alice, who cruelly lost their young lives in such horrific circumstances."The three young children were full of life and energy and will be missed beyond any description my woefully inadequate words may attempt to describe. I therefore offer my deepest condolences to Elsie, Bebe and Alice’s parents, families and friends and those heartfelt condolences of all of my staff here at the coroner’s court.”