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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.

  • Jake Farm
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    1 month ago

    Probably but all of that requires you pay someone to make the government do something about it.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      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.

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        1 month ago

        No I am basing my analysis on how the US legal system works. Wait until you find out about how District Attorneys work.