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UK police have increasingly arrested people over social-media posts, with reporting that forces made “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) for offensive online communications cited...
Maria Farmer has described being sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at multiple properties, reporting threats and early contact with law enforcement in 1996, and she has since...
Available reporting indicates UK police made roughly 12,000 arrests in 2023 for social-media or private-message communications captured under Section 127 (Communications Act 2003) and Section 1 (Malic...
most commonly learn that someone has viewed through platform and industry reporting—hash-matching, automated classifiers and hotline referrals—followed by targeted forensic examinations once devices o...
UK police use a combination of automated hash-matching (CAID), rapid triage tools, and full forensic examination to distinguish deliberate possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from acciden...
UK police do not record “arrests for social media posts” as a distinct national category; forces record offences by legal offence types or Reason for Arrest (RFA) codes such as malicious communication...
UK police activity in 2024 included widespread arrests for online speech, with reporting noting thousands of detentions and over 30 arrests a day in some analyses (Daily Mail-based totals cited at ~9,...
do not use a single, publicly mandated national flag or category to mark “social media” as the cause of a custody arrest; instead the picture assembled by reporting relies on from individual forces an...
UK police increasingly rely on digital traces — social media posts, private messages and platform metadata — both to investigate criminal hate speech and to log “non‑crime hate incidents,” with custod...
The available reporting shows no single, publicly codified checklist that UK police apply to label an online message as “threatening”; instead, determinations arise from a mix of statutory offences, i...