Southport attack: how disinformation spread to start a riot
It didn’t take long for misinformation to start circulating online after the attacker struck the dance class in Southport.
UK law makes it a criminal offence to identify a suspect who’s under 18, and police have only said that he’s 17, was born in Cardiff and lived in a village near Southport.
But false claims about the suspect’s identity were quickly jumped on by far-right groups, leading to last night’s violent clashes outside a mosque.
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