oby Young joined Patrick Christys on GB News to discuss the breaking story that a Pakistani web developer has been arrested under the country’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, accused of being the first person to falsely claim the Southport attacker was an “asylum seeker”.
Farhan Asif reportedly worked for news aggregation website Channel3Now and has been charged with cyber terrorism.
As Toby says, this development suggests Sir Kier Starmer’s initial claim that the riots were instigated by ‘far-Right’ activists in the UK was itself fake news.
It was partly due to this ‘misinformation’ that counter-protesters – for the most part Muslim men – gathered in the affected areas and, in some cases, attacked innocent people they wrongly identified as ‘far-Right’ agitators.
In short, the Prime Minister may now be guilty of an offence under the Online Safety Act 2023, namely, knowingly publishing false information that has had a harmful effect.
Full video available here.
