of people go missing in Britain every year. Many of them do not make it into the local press, let alone the national media. This can distress their relatives: press coverage helps police as they appeal for information and witnesses. Yet the family of Nicola Bulley, who was missing for 23 days before her body was found on February 19th in the River Wyre in Lancashire, may wish that her disappearance had attracted less attention.
The case has highlighted one of the great downsides of the internet: the amplification of voices that are better left unheard. In the days after Ms Bulley dropped her children at school, took her dog for a walk and vanished, self-proclaimed body-language experts and psychics posted videos hypothesising about what could have happened. YouTube and TikTok broadcasters turned up to film the river bank where she disappeared and to quiz passers-by. Some tried to break into nearby buildings.
Social-media sleuthing presents a big new challenge for police conducting high-profile investigations. Paul Fullwood, a former assistant chief constable for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Constabularies, says that in the past police working on missing-person cases had a “professional understanding” with journalists, which might include giving information on the understanding that it not be published.
Better communication might help. The Lancashire Constabulary has come in for a lot of criticism, much of which may be groundless. Their initial supposition, that Ms Bulley had somehow fallen into the river, may well have been correct. Yet some reckon that the police provided too few progress reports, allowing others to fill the gap. After a diving expert said she could not have fallen in, online speculation—about everything from abduction to potential suspects—grew wilder.
Voices better left unheard: Bill Gates, George Soros, Greta Thunberg, David Hogg, Jonathan Greenblatt, Joe Biden, Anthony Fauci... etc.
I think Trump and Brexit already showed us that. Not to mention the well documented widespread activities of Facebook and partners like Cam Analytics deliberately causing havoc through social media in countries like Kenya with extreme violence and deaths resulting.
Sky News was awful. Plodding about in muddy fields, spreading wild theories and speculation, not helping the family at all. What an dreadful channel.
Not voices, but personal opinions. They may not be always objective but given the lack of info/mis information then what can one expect? When people are left in the dark, they will attempt to light it. When a void is presented, they will attempt to fill it..
The watchdog also found the force LP wasn't always carrying out investigations 'timely' and 'thoroughly' and that victims 'weren't always updated on progress', according to The Sun.
Great line: 'the amplification of voices that are better left unheard.' Boy, ain't that the truth?
heard someone who was driving from London for photoshoot at that bench - sick media drove interest x
her dog tripped her up into the river, The End
Saddened The Economist is delving into low brow stuff like this.
It presents a bigger challenge for the honest citizen when they can't trust their lying police force and complicit- corrupt government PrivateEyeNews
Very oncerning a lot of social media without any knowwledhe jump & points fingers at innocent people. And this can ruin that innocent person. It's disgusting how easy this has become No accountability so anyone can point at someone as suspects. Even some1 just liking a post
No. Nicola Bulley and the era of the dickhead. Let's have this right, please. My god.
Is the assumpt embedded 😏 in social media sleuthing that either all accts repres. natural humans or some respectable portion of them do? I think the Twitter takeover proved that is not something we can deduce either easily or maybe at all...yet and at least on all but 1 platform
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