#grosslyoffensivecommunications

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Coronavirus: 'I faked having Covid-19 on Facebook and got arrested'

Across the world police are chasing down alleged symptom-fakers who are being accused of triggering panic.

I get that people are worried about the spread of fake news and everyone is a little more on edge about it but this was just a joke or 'social experiment'. I disagree that he should be arrested for this, especially as he was making the point about the dangers of fake news and how easy it is to fall for it.

24 April 2020

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Coronavirus: 'I faked having Covid-19 on Facebook and got arrested'

Across the world police are chasing down alleged symptom-fakers who are being accused of triggering panic.

I get that people are worried about the spread of fake news and everyone is a little more on edge about it but this was just a joke or 'social experiment'. I disagree that he should be arrested for this, especially as he was making the point about the dangers of fake news and how easy it is to fall for it.

24 April 2020

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Boy charged with right-wing terrorism offences

The 16-year-old faces 11 charges including supporting the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.

7 April 2020

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Coronavirus: Vanessa Hudgens sorry for 'people are going to die' comments

The High School Musical star seemed to question how serious people dying from coronavirus is.

19 March 2020

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MP sorry for 'get a life' sick pay tweet

Pauline Latham says she was "in a state of distress" when she replied to a constituent on Twitter.

This was a disgusting tweet from an MP - and one she repeated more than once when challenged by another Twitter user.

People are dying; people are panicking. They are looking to their MPs for answers.The last thing anybody needs is unhelpful and insensitive comments like these when all the person wanted to know was what was being done to support those ineligible for sick pay: a worry that’s on the minds of many self-employed, freelance, part-time and zero-hour contract workers. 

17 March 2020

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The people convicted at Taunton Magistrates' Court in the last week

Magistrates deal with more than 90 per cent of criminal cases

10 March 2020

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£1,600 fine for solicitor who forwarded ‘grossly offensive’ email to colleague - Legal Cheek

Paul Kenneth Breen was department head of Liverpool outfit when he passed on email derogatory to women

10 March 2020

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Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist - all at once

A Florida man who was arrested for allegedly plotting a bomb attack had dozens of abusive and contradictory online identities.

27 February 2020