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An Irishman who escaped the far-right after years of supporting extremist views said it was like leaving a cult .
Caolan Robertson was born in Ireland but moved to the UK as a child.
As an adult, he was gradually drawn into extreme right-wing politics, first as an online supporter and then through making videos for people like Tommy Robinson, Lauren Southern and Alex Jones.
He subsequently had doubts about the messages was propagating and he now works to extract people from right-wing circles and to counter misinformation.
Speaking on the
Moncrieff programme this week, Mr Robertson, the Co-Founder of Future Freedom and Director at BylineTV, described how he entered the world of far-right politics and came out the other side.
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In 2018, a far-right activist, Tommy Robinson, posted a video to YouTube claiming he had been attacked by an African migrant in Rome.
The thumbnail image and eight-word title promoting the video indicated Mr. Robinson was assaulted by a Black man outside a train station. Then, in the video, Mr. Robinson punched the man in the jaw, dropping him to the ground.
The video was viewed more than 2.8 million times, and it prompted news stories across the right-wing tabloids in Britain, where Mr. Robinson was rapidly gaining notoriety for his anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic views.
For Caolan Robertson a filmmaker who worked for Mr. Robinson and helped create the video it was an instructional moment. It showed the key ingredients needed to attract attention on YouTube and other social media services.
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