Bernadette Spofforth, who was previously suspected of incorrectly attributing the identity of the Southport murder suspect in England, can now breathe a sigh of relief as police authorities have ceased their inquiries into the matter. This investigation began after Spofforth was accused of hastily sharing misinformation on a social media platform, X, misidentifying the assailant from the tragic event outside a Taylor Swift dance class.
Spofforth’s arrest followed Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s crackdown on online speech.
Spofforth’s hastily shared post on X had originally read: “Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect. He was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list.” This was followed by the postscript, “If this is true, then all hell is about to break loose.”
Spofforth claims that she got the information from a Pakistan-based news website that has since been shut down.
The police investigation into Spofforth was one of the cases that put the UK’s recent turn towards criminalizing “misinformation” on the map, spurring global condemnation from free speech advocates worldwide. […]
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