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In the immediate aftermath of the attack, misinformation about the identity of the attacker began to spread widely on social media. [76] Claims that the suspect was a Muslim migrant or asylum seeker were rapidly spread by right-wing accounts. [ 77 ]
A 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, remains in custody.
Posts sharing the false identity of the Southport stabbing suspect were viewed at least 420,000 times on social media, The Independent can reveal.. England was hit by a series of race riots in ...
Police were called to reports of a stabbing in Hart Street, Southport, at around 11.47 on Monday. Southport is in the north-west, around 10 miles north of Liverpool.
On 9 August, a 55 year-old woman was arrested for circulating a fake name for the Southport attacker on her X account before his real identity was disclosed. [ 251 ] On 12 August, two 12-year-old boys were among those convicted.
Far-right activists have been accused of using social media platforms to spread disinformation, most notably falsely claiming that the Southport attacker was an immigrant who had arrived in the UK ...
Within hours of a stabbing attack in northwest England that killed three young girls and wounded several more children, a false name of a supposed suspect was circulating on social media. Hours ...
The stabbing in Southport, a town on the U.K.'s western coastline, ignited far-right riots across the country after a storm of misinformation emerged online that Rudakubana was a newly-arrived ...