{"id":8558,"date":"2025-06-15T16:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T15:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2025-06-16T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T15:11:40","slug":"ballymena-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2025\/06\/15\/ballymena-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballymena and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lrkwj5de4222\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreieh6wp5nqulmk7m4kypefkcbp6pws2u6ml7nt6uwsi4pjz5y3gyeq\" data-bluesky-embed-color-mode=\"system\"><p lang=\"en\">\u201cAnalysis of census data shows that Ballymena has experienced rapid demographic change in recent years, while the Sky News data and forensics team also found evidence of rising tensions on social media in the weeks preceding the incident.\u201d<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lrkwj5de4222?ref_src=embed\">[image or embed]<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Gary R. Bunt (<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">@garyrbunt.bsky.social<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3lrkwj5de4222?ref_src=embed\">14 June 2025 at 13:15<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnalysis of census data shows that Ballymena has experienced rapid demographic change in recent years, while the Sky News data and forensics team also found evidence of rising tensions on social media in the weeks preceding the incident.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8559,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions\/8559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}