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

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 Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:36PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14 2018, @05:36PM (#761803)

    don't be an idiot. all these asshats have to do is build reputation into these apps. if every time you forwarded some bullshit that ended up being fake everyone you forwarded that to got to see why your reputation score just went down, and they had filters that demanded 90+% reputation to receive your messages (or similar features), people would quit acting like grandmothers who think email is for religious chain letters and forwarding every stupid ass message. right now it's free to spam people with bs. make it cost and people will be more careful.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:00PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday November 14 2018, @07:00PM (#761846)

    Reputation ? How is that a solution ?
    The people on Gab love each other.