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☆ As disinformation spreads during UK riots, regulators are currently powerless to take action
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-08 | by ( Ryan Browne | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

But even as online disinformation related to stabbings in the U.K. has led to real-world violence, Ofcom, Britain's online safety regulator finds itself unable to take effective enforcement actions. Shortly after the attack, social media users were quick to falsely identify the perpetrator as an asylum seeker who arrived in the U.K. by boat in 2023. U.K. officials subsequently issued warnings to social media firms urging them to get tough on false information online. Peter Kyle, the U.K.'s technology minister, held conversations with social media firms such as TikTok, Facebook parent company Meta , Google and X over their handling of misinformation being spread during the riots. watch nowUnder the Online Safety Act, the sending of false information intended to cause non-trivial harm is considered a punishable criminal offense.

Persons: Christopher Furlong, knifeman, Taylor Swift, Axel Rudakubana, Peter Kyle, Gill Whitehead, Whitehead Organizations: Riot, Ofcom, Police, Facebook, Meta, Google, CNBC Locations: Rotherham, U.K, Southport, Merseyside

☆ Attacks in France in recent years
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Here are some other attacks that have taken place in France in recent years:- June 9, 2023 - A Syrian national wounded four children and two pensioners in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy. - Oct. 29, 2020 - An attacker with a knife killed three people and wounded several others at a church in the southern city of Nice. - March 23, 2018 - A gunman killed three people in southwestern France after holding up a car, firing on police and taking hostages in a supermarket. - July 26, 2016 - Two attackers killed a priest and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France before being shot dead by police. - Nov. 13, 2015 - Paris was rocked by multiple gun and bomb attacks on entertainment sites around the city, in which 130 people were killed and 368 wounded.

Persons: Lycee Gambetta, Carnot, Pascal Rossignol, Emmanuel Macron, Samuel Paty, Prophet Mohammad, Charlie Hebdo, Mickael Harpon, Francois Hollande, Frenchman, Charlie Hebdo’s, Michel Rose, Frances Kerry Organizations: Lycee, REUTERS, Rights, Syrian, Police, Paris police, Security, Islamic, Islamic State, Belgian, Thomson Locations: Arras, France, Alpine, Annecy, Reims, Nord, Paris, Kurdish, Nice, Pakistan, Islamic State, Tunisian, State

☆ French 'backpack hero' says his faith gave him strength to fight knifeman
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Geert De Clercq | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Denis BalibousePARIS, June 9 (Reuters) - A modern-day pilgrim on a walking tour of France's cathedrals told journalists on Friday his Catholic faith gave him the strength to fight a man who stabbed four children in a park in Annecy. On my journey to the cathedrals I crossed paths with this man and I have acted instinctively. Police said they arrested a Syrian refugee over the attack and told journalists the suspect had been carrying Christian insignia. The entire Christian civilisation on which our country is built is a knightly message to defend widows and orphans. He would continue his months-long walking tour and hoped to show social media followers "how the beauty of the cathedrals can nourish us and help us do the right thing".

Persons: Denis Balibouse PARIS, Henri, CNEWS, Virgin Mary, Emmanuel Macron, BFM, Geert De Clercq, Andrew Heavens Organizations: REUTERS, Catholic, Police, Thomson Locations: Annecy, French, France

ANNECY, France, June 9 (Reuters) - Two toddlers gravely wounded by a knifeman in the French mountain town of Annecy were in a stable condition on Friday and doctors are optimistic for their recovery, President Emmanuel Macron said. Macron, who has called the attack an "act of absolute cowardice", visited the hospital in Grenoble where three of the four children are being treated before heading to nearby Annecy. "The doctors are very confident," Macron told the police and paramedics who responded to the aftermath of the attack. Among the children wounded in the attack were a British national and a Dutch national. One of the two pensioners caught up in the attack told Reuters he had been sitting on a park bench when the attacker approached on the run.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Macron, lunge, Henri, Denis Balibouse, Mag Capone, Mathis, Elisabeth Borne, Gerald Darmanin, Youssouf, Antony Paone, Geert de Clercq, Richard Lough, Andrew Heavens, Nick Macfie, Angus MacSwan Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Annecy Cathedral, Annecy Prosecutor, Police, Thomson Locations: ANNECY, France, Annecy, Grenoble, British, French, Sweden, Swedish, Schengen, Italy, Paris

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