A blurry video taken at night of a distressed and partially clothed man running down a Dublin Street is posted on TikTok in late January. The person filming asks "what happened? Are you OK?" To which the distressed man replies in a muffled voice "I've been raped." The video clip ends.

Not long afterwards the same clip makes its way onto another social media platform with the post: "Rumours circulating in Pearse Street area that over the weekend just gone, an Irish man (a local) was attacked by 5 refugees held down and raped by each refugee in turn. Has anyone heard anything? To which another person responds "Just had it confirmed tonight that this was not a rumour but true.. five illegals."

This is just one of 20 sample video clips originating on TikTok which went viral in Ireland and were tracked and analysed by the London based monitoring group, the Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD), since last November.

In new analysis shared with Prime Time, the monitoring group found that nine of these videos made unverified claims of attacks and sexual assaults against women, men and children allegedly perpetrated by migrants. Five of those videos claimed that migrants had tried to harass or sexually assault children. In ten clips, migrants were directly confronted by the person filming and their faces were clearly recognisable in the footage. Of these, three target Ukrainian refugees specifically.

"The main finding is that this analysis provides evidence of rumours and racially...

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