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Burned to Death Because of a Rumour on WhatsApp

posted by martyb on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the Wizard's-First-Rule dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Two innocent men have been burned alive by a massive lynch mob after WhatsApp rumours branded them child abductors.

A large crowd gathered outside the police station after rumours spread about the two men.

A mob dragged two men out of a police station, savagely beat them and then set them on fire, killing them, after a false rumour was spread on WhatsApp about the pair being child kidnappers.

The mother of one of the men made a desperate plea for the crowd to stop as she watched the lynching unfold on a Facebook livestream.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-46145986

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by NPC-131072 on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:58PM (2 children)

    by NPC-131072 (7144) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:58PM (#761740) Journal

    “Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.” -- Elon Musk

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  • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:43PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @08:43PM (#761894) Homepage Journal

    His use of Social Media isn't CEO. It's MODERN DAY CEO.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 15 2018, @06:26PM (#762273)

    >Be expatriot of US
    >Move to SE Asia
    >Claim to not be a pedo

    Musk got in trouble for something the internet would have just assumed of a person a decade ago