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Disinformation experts say while it’s human nature to seek out more information after a tragedy, an online rush to identify suspects can have terrible consequences.
Their remarks come after RCMP highlighted a falsehood targeting an Ontario woman as the suspect in the recent shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
RCMP released a confirmed photo of the actual shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, on Friday as Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald called out false accusations against a person named Zylii Strang, with no connection to the case.
Reminds me of reddit’s the Boston marathon bombing. Iirc, they ruined a guy’s life.
There need to be legal consequences outside of civil law suits normal people can’t afford to push in the first place.
I agree. Maybe cyberbullying laws could be applied? There and here in the US. Also maybe defamatory libel?
I’d be interested in what a lawyer would say about that.
Probably but all of that requires you pay someone to make the government do something about it.
Wait… If you report a crime, you need a lawyer to see that it is prosecuted? Am usaian. Don’t know how it work in canadia.
Referring to Cyberbullying.
No I am basing my analysis on how the US legal system works. Wait until you find out about how District Attorneys work.
Which is…
They have the authority to decide how and which laws are enforced, including who those laws apply to and have the disgression to simply not enforce the law.
I disengage from this conversation. Have a nice weekend.
