LONDON (AP) — Within hours of a stabbing attack in northwest England that killed three young girls and wounded several more children, the name of a suspect was circulating on social media.
Flowers and toys are placed on the junction of Tithebarn Road and Hart Street in Southport, England, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, after three girls killed in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed holiday club on Monday. and wounded several more children, the name of a suspect was circulating on social media . Hours after that, violent protesters were clashing with police outside a nearby mosque.
“There’s a parallel universe where what was claimed by these rumors were the actual facts of the case,” said Sunder Katwala, director of British Future, a think tank that looks at issues including integration and national identity. “And that will be a difficult thing to manage.” “Some of the key actors are probably just generating traffic, possibly for monetization,” said Katwala. The misinformation was then spread further by “people committed to the U.K. domestic far right,” he said.
Under U.K. law, suspects are not publicly named until they have been charged, and those under 18 are usually not named at all. That has been seized on by some activists to suggest the police are withholding information about the attacker.
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