Slanderous news on social media: Police catch three distributors

People who post slanderous news on social media should consider themselves warned. The police recently managed to track down three people who had spread slanderous news on social media. All three cases are unrelated. In the first case the fake report suggested that cambio owners were being accused of having shipped € 1.6 million to The United States of America. The shipment of money was reportedly intercepted and seized in Miami. The police quickly tracked down the person who had spread the fake news. After the perpetrator had offered his apology to the cambio owner who he had falsely accused, and after he had promised to publish his apology in a local newspaper, the police indicated that the matter had been settled. In the second case a woman had spread fake news via Whatsapp about a deputy inspector who had recently died. The widow whose name was also mentioned in the story decided to press charges against the female distributor of the slanderous news. The perpetrator was arrested on Sunday and released the next day after she had offered an apology to the widow via a voice message. She also confessed in the voice message that most of the things that she had claimed were not based on facts. In the third case a private sex movie of a reporter was spread on social media. The police found out that the mobile phone of the reporter’s girlfriend was at her girlfriend and that that girlfriend had made a copy of the movie before sharing it on social media. The police arrested the reporter’s girlfriend’s girlfriend. She was reportedly released after having been questioned. In all three cases the police arrested the first person who posted the fake and slanderous news go viral social media.