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On 30 July, far-right protesters clashed with police in Southport and damaged a mosque after misinformation about the attacker's identity was spread online. Over the next few days, protests and riots spread nationwide.
Merseyside Police have issued a warning after an “incorrect” name for the alleged Southport attacker was widely circulated online. Inaccurate posts by social media sleuths about the identity ...
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 ...
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.
False information about the identity of the alleged Southport attacker received 27 million impressions on X, formerly Twitter, in the first day after the mass stabbing of children at a Taylor ...
Patrick Hurley, the MP for Southport said the riots in the town on Tuesday night occurred because of the “propaganda and lies” spread on social media about the identity of the attacker.
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.
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 ...