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Arrests linked to social media posts, including political speech and online content, with varying outcomes and evidentiary tensions across different countries.
Arrests linked to social media range from local prosecutions for explicit criminal acts captured online to state-led crackdowns on political speech; monitoring and arrests are both measurable and cont...
The clearest, sourced claim for social media–related arrests per day comes from UK reporting: The Times’ freedom-of-information finding—cited in Freedom House’s country report—says police were making ...
Available reporting shows that a large share of arrests made for online posts do not end in convictions or prison: local UK freedom-of-information data indicate roughly one in three arrests were follo...