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00:29Сиек, falsely claimed he had been the victim of a racist assault by Novak when he called
00:34the police to the scene.
00:36But the spread of misleading online claims about the case, including in many European
00:39languages, has had devastating consequences on people who had nothing to do with it.
00:44Posts viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media wrongly named officers allegedly
00:49involved in the investigation.
00:51For instance, Officer Christy Hill was named in X posts.
00:54Grok, X's AI chatbot, also named her when users asked about the identity of officers
01:00who feature in body cam footage of the crime scene.
01:03Hill, who was no longer a serving officer when Novak was killed, later said in a public post
01:08that her wrongful identification had led her to receive a torrent of abuse and threats.
01:13She was also connected to a widely shared image, appearing to show an arresting officer with
01:18a claw-like hand, shared in multiple languages, such as German and Polish, across blogs and
01:23mainstream social media platforms.
01:25But the original body cam footage released by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary
01:29tells a different story.
01:30The officer's hand does not appear claw-like, and in fact the fingers are largely hidden from view.
01:35Another police officer has been forced to relocate his home after being falsely identified online.
01:40A police spokesperson told us that the force condemned widespread misinformation online
01:45by those intent on causing further division.
01:49Henry Novak's murder has also provoked an onslaught of online abuse directed towards Britain's Sikh community.
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