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How misinformation spread across the internet within minutes of a police officer being stabbed in Ireland. Social media claimed he was a foreigner but the suspect is an Irish citizen who was born in the country
The suspect is an Irish citizen who was born in the country.
FOLLOWING A KNIFE attack on a garda patrolling inner city Dublin yesterday, false claims that the suspect was a migrant quickly spread on the internet. “We have some people with their own agenda try and inflame situations like this for their own ends,” Paul Cleary, Assistant Commissioner for the Dublin Metropolitan Region, said on Morning Ireland today. Another post that appeared half an hour later, which says that the stabbing was carried out by a “migrant who went Tonto [crazy]”, has been seen 22,800 times, according to statistics from Meta, Facebook’s parent company.
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