Posted on 07/31/2024 10:54:35 PM PDT by MoraBlack
A Russian-linked fake news website fuelled lies that sparked violent protests over the Southport stabbings.
A Mail investigation traced the misinformation that spread like wildfire online, leading – 27 hours later – to an attack on a mosque and 53 police officers being injured as they tried to protect it.
There were further ugly scenes last night as flares and glass bottles were thrown near Downing Street when protesters clashed with officers.
The violence has been stirred up by false claims the triple murder suspect was an asylum seeker called Ali Al-Shakati who arrived in the UK on a small boat and was 'on the MI6 watchlist'.
The claims were amplified by social media account Channel3 Now, which masquerades as an American news website and whose inflammatory post was viewed by nearly two million people before being deleted.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yes, only post the approved government narrative.
Yes, The Daily Fail IS unverified "news".
RUSSIAN_BOOGEY_MAN_PING!
I'm not a fan of Putin. But how can they blame the Islamic conquest of Western Europe on Putin?
Notice how 100% of all UK media coverage is on the riots and NOT on the background of the murderer and his family, and the immigration disaster that led to this savage crime, one of the worst in British history.
The old Brits would have had the yute dancing on a gibbet tree on Tyburn Hill by now, and his family would have been lucky to avoid joining him.
“and that the suspect was in fact born in Cardiff”
So it’s the SON of an Illegal Immigrant. Does it really matter, at this point?
Is it Russia again, Yogi?
It’s always Russia, Boo boo.
I'll take the Russian news.
There would have been just as little coverage on the murderer had he been a white Scotsman. That's because of the strict UK rules on prejudicing a fair trial and contempt of court. This means that the media have to delay all in-depth coverage of a criminal until after trial and sentence. All they can do is publish the name (and not even that if it's a juvenile), and home location, and report anything that's said in open court. This applies whatever the crime, and whoever the criminal.
An obscure Russian website didn’t fuel violent protests, British immigration policy did.
The Daily Fail has absolutely no way of knowing if the posting on Channel3 Now caused the protests.
More likely a simply expression of anger at what has all the hallmarks of yet another racist attack upon the long suffering natives.
When George Floyd died, protests swept the country, led and encouraged by the left.
If citizens protest a killing my an immigrant, they are “extremists” and must be put down. O
Then why did you?
Unless its the Italians...
What you say is quite correct.
However, the rules protecting juveniles cover a very broad spectrum, from the little boys stealing a candy bar all the way up to mass-murderers caught, quite literally, red-handed. The magistrates or judges at today’s hearing have the power to overturn such restrictions, if it is deemed in the public interest. In this case I cannot see any valid reason why they should continue to protect the identity of the suspect, and it might even defuse the situation.
Pretty sure it was the hacking to death of multiple innocent young schoolgirls that has them rioting. Whether the perp is first or second generation really doesn’t matter. It was done by a non native with extreme hate for his just country’s people. That’s enough.
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