The laws of the United Kingdom are not “suitable for the social media era”, says Report on summer disorders
The British laws that limit what the police can say about criminal cases "is not suitable for the era of social media," said a government committee in a report published on Monday in Great Britain which highlighted how much the uncontrolled disinformation fueled the disorders last summer.The violent disorder, fed by the far right, hit several cities for days after a teenager killed three girls on July 29 in a SWIFT themed dance lesson in Southport, England. In the hours following the stabs, false statements that the striker was a Muslim immigrant without documents spread rapidly online.In a relationship that examines the unrest, a parliamentary committee stated that the lack of information from the authorities after the attack "created a void in which the disinformation was able to grow". ...