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fromwww.bbc.com
2 days ago

Three wrongly accused over child abuse images after BT gets 'wires crossed'

Three people were wrongly accused of possessing child abuse images after BT wiring was crossed, triggering device seizures, employment harm, child-protection referrals, and severe distress.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Stephen King Apologizes and Deletes Tweet Falsely Claiming Charlie Kirk Wanted to Stone Gay People

Stephen King apologized and deleted a tweet falsely claiming Charlie Kirk advocated stoning gay people, acknowledging he mischaracterized Kirk's remarks about Biblical passages.
US politics
fromwww.cbc.ca
1 month ago

'I feel violated': How a Toronto retiree was falsely accused of being the Charlie Kirk shooter | CBC News

Michael Mallinson, a 77-year-old retired Toronto banker, was falsely identified online as the suspect in Charlie Kirk's shooting despite never having been to Utah.
fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Rosie O'Donnell Apologizes for Calling Minnesota Church Shooter a MAGA Person'

The attack at Annunciation Catholic Church left two children dead and 18 others wounded. The shooter, 23-year-old Robin Westman, later died from a self-inflicted gunshot. In a now-deleted video posted to TikTok on Thursday, one day after the shooting, O'Donnell, who relocated to Ireland in January after Trump's return to the White House, fumed that the shooter was a white guy, Republican, MAGA person. What do you know? White supremacists, she added at the time.
US politics
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Roman Polanski's Self-Centered "An Officer and a Spy"

The film, whose original French title is "J'Accuse," tells the story of the French captain Alfred Dreyfus, who was wrongly convicted of treason, in 1894.
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Social justice
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Woman 'beaten to a pulp' and burnt with blow torch during three-hours of torture says she will never forgive 'animals' who attacked her

A woman was severely tortured by an eight-man gang after being falsely accused of drug theft.
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