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Twitter disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3ldyajiajrk2w

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[–] Clbull 69 points 5 days ago (2 children)

AOC isn't exactly wrong. We've had this occur in my country just a few months ago.

There was a mass stabbing in England where three children were killed. False claims that the attacker was a Muslim asylum seeker spread online and led to white supremacist riots across the country. The suspect (later named because the court lifted an anonymity order) was later revealed to actually be a British born teenager with Rwandan parents. He wasn't even a Muslim.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I knew people who genuinely and seriously bought into arguments that compared 'whiteness' of the British race to crime and immigration. White supremacy screeds just got pumped into people whom I had known 20+ years. People who maintained rational and sane opinions during Brexit just bought into it wholesale that life was better when there were only whites in Britain.

Absolute trash.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya 6 points 4 days ago

Oddly enough, the person who first posted the misinformation was traced to be from Pakistan.