Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 month agoI was raided they accused me of wanting to shoot up my workplace, I worked out later someone made a joke when I was on my holiday and a new member took it seriously and phoned the mayor’s office.
I was questioned about my non existant Facebook account almost every police interwiews I went through which all in all I’d say was close to a dozen.
Whole thing was a nightmare which ruined my entire life at the time, the fact the mayor was involved I think made the police absolutely crazy with trying to get me on anything at all. But yeah Facebook came up way way too often to the point I felt they wanted to arrest me for not having one and I wad some type of criminal scum for not having one.
Ultimately they didn’t get me on anything but I kinda feel if I had a Facebook anything I ever posted on it would be twisted in some of way to get me.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
That’s horrible. I’m so sorry to hear that.
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 month ago
Yeah it sucked at the time, took me quite a while to work out what actually happened.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I actually heard a story where someone made an allegation of racism against somebody, the police logged it but never visited that person or informed them about it. Then that person had a check for a job (I believe working with Children) which involved seeing police records, and it was recorded there. It couldn’t be overturned or be removed because it was in no way a conviction, but it still stopped them from getting a job regardless.
baggins@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Reposting things like this doesn’t help - people will pick up this as fact. Unless you can prove it, don’t post it.