Is Keir Starmer planning to build emergency detainment camps to detain UK rioters?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!
Claim : Keir Starmer may build detainment camps for UK rioters!
This screenshot of an article by The Telegraph has gone viral, claiming that Prime Minister Keir Starmer is planning to build detainment camps to detain UK rioters.
Keir Starmer considering building ’emergency detainment camps’ on the Falkland Islands
The camps would be used to detain prisoners from the ongoing riots as the British prison system is already at capacity
Fiona Parker, Senior News Reporter
7 August 2024 11:31am
The screenshot went viral on X (formerly known as Twitter), after X owner Elon Musk shared it out to millions of his followers.
Ashlea Simon (deleted) : We’re all being deported to the Falklands
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Truth : Keir Starmer is not building detainment camps for UK rioters!
This is yet another example of fake news originating in X (formerly known as Twitter), and here are the reasons why…
Fact #1 : The Telegraph screenshot is fake
I should start by pointing out that the viral screenshot is completely fake.
Fiona Parker never wrote, and The Telegraph never published, any story claiming that Keir Starmer was considering the building of ’emergency detainment camps’ to detain UK rioters.
The Telegraph quickly denied that it published such an article, but unfortunately, its reach was much lower than that of Elon Musk – far fewer people saw its denial.
The Telegraph is aware of an image circulating on X which purports to be a Telegraph article about ’emergency detainment camps’. No such article has ever been published by the Telegraph.
The Telegraph also “notified relevant platforms and requested that the post be taken down“.
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Fact #2 : No legitimate media reported on detention camp proposal
Anyone who spends even 5 seconds to check online would quickly realise that this is just more fake news on the X social media platform.
Not only is there no such article by The Telegraph, no other legitimate media outlet reported that Prime Minister Keir Starmer was considering a plan to build detention camps in the Falkland Islands to hold UK rioters.
If such a shocking story ever broke, it would have been reportedly widely not only in the United Kingdom, but across the world. Yet, there was no such story, no outraged editorials, nothing. That’s because it was all made up!
But don’t worry – you were not the only one who got fooled. Even one of the richest man in the world, whom some believe is a genius, got fooled.
Fact #3 : Ashlea Simon + Elon Musk deleted their posts
The screenshot appears to have circulated earlier, but only went viral after it was posted by Ashlea Simon – the co-leader of the far-right Britain First political party, and then shared by Elon Musk – the owner of X himself.
Due to his outsized reach and 193 million followers on X, the fake Telegraph screenshot was seen by almost 1 million people in the first 15 minutes, and at least 1.8 million people before Elon Musk deleted his post.
Ashlea Simon also deleted her post after some time. Neither Elon Musk nor Ashlea Simon acknowledged, nor apologised, for posting and then deleting the fake screenshot.
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Fact #4 : No Community Notes appeared for Elon Musk’ post
While X has a Community Notes feature which allows X users to help provide context, or highlight fake or misleading posts, it lacks transparency and often works too slowly to matter.
X users who frequently post fake or misleading news can also circumvent the Community Notes feature by simply deleting their posts. Some do this repeatedly, posting and deleting fake or misleading posts after, or sometimes before they get “community-noted”.
For example, it took just under 10 hours for Ashlea Simon’s post to get community noted, with a tag that said:
This story does not exist. It is framed as a Telegraph story to make it appear real.
That Community Note only appeared for a brief time, because she quickly deleted the post. As for Elon Musk, his post never got “community noted” before he deleted it himself.
In any case, there’s no penalty in getting “community noted”. In fact, some of the most popular accounts on X are notorious for being “community noted”.
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