How the Liverpool car-ramming sparked a wave of online misinformation

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How the Liverpool car-ramming sparked a wave of online misinformation  False claims about the identity of the driver swirled online despite Merseyside Police swiftly disclosing the suspect's ethnicity and nationality in a bid to stamp out speculation.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/02/how-the-liverpool-car-ramming-sparked-a-wave-of-online-misinformation  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00How the Liverpool car ramming sparked false claims and misinformation.

00:07This is the moment just before a car ploughed through the crowd

00:12during Liverpool Football Club's Premier League victory parade last Monday.

00:16Within just three hours, police said that a 53-year-old white British man had been arrested

00:22in an attempt to stamp out speculation.

00:26Despite this, false claims about the nature of the attack and the identity of the driver

00:31spread rapidly online.

00:33Posts shared later that evening on social media claimed to show another man

00:37who was purportedly the real driver of the vehicle.

00:40The claims were amplified across platforms and have been viewed millions of times.

00:46But this is false.

00:48Merseyside police have confirmed that the man in this photo isn't the suspect.

00:53The screenshot of the man matches this TikTok video shared from the Liverpool parade.

00:59He can be seen joking around, entering the police car and wearing a policeman's hat.

01:04TikTok users point out in the comments that he's being falsely signalled as the driver

01:09in other social media posts.

01:12Another video from the scene of the incident shows a man struggling with police on the ground.

01:17This Facebook post falsely claims that this man is the 53-year-old detained by police

01:23and that the driver of the vehicle is a different person, suggesting the suspect is still at large.

01:29Merseyside police have also refuted these claims, saying just one man was arrested

01:35and that he isn't the man shown in this video.

01:39These false claims have spread virally, fueling speculation and confusion.

01:44Authorities say they communicated quickly in order to fill the information void with the truth

01:50and to debunk these unfounded theories.

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