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.
00:25Despite this, false claims about the nature of the attack and the identity of the driver spread rapidly online.
00:32Posts shared later that evening on social media claimed to show another man who was purportedly the real driver of the vehicle.
00:40The claims were amplified across platforms and have been viewed millions of times.
00:45But this is false.
00:47Merseyside police have confirmed that the man in this photo isn't the suspect.
00:52The screenshot of the man matches this TikTok video shared from the Liverpool parade.
00:58He can be seen joking around, entering the police car and wearing a policeman's hat.
01:03TikTok users point out in the comments that he's being falsely signalled as the driver in other social media posts.
01:11Another video from the scene of the incident shows a man struggling with police on the ground.
01:16This 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.
01:38These false claims have spread virally, fuelling speculation and confusion.
01:43Authorities say they communicated quickly in order to fill the information void with the truth
01:49and to debunk these unfounded theories.
01:53If you've seen them, you can't even expect a lot of your screen.
01:55You can find a little in case of a woman who's still there,
01:59you can't buy a lot of your screen but in the context.
02:02You've seen a lot of your screen.
02:04You've seen it on October, two months before you've seen it.
02:06The closest thing you've seen and if it's been a new one with the other not yet,
02:09you've seen it on October.
02:11Let's see it on October, 2021.
02:13It's at the same time, you can find it on your screen,
02:16it's a little bit better, and I want to see it on your screen.
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