Just hours after the episode, the police announced that the driver was a white British man. After previous violence, false ...

It was less than two hours after the emergency services had first been contacted that the police announced a 53-year-old ...

False claims started to circulate rapidly. It was alleged that his name was ‘Ali Al-Shakati' and that he was an asylum seeker who had recently come to the UK. It was also falsely claimed that he was ...

This allowed misinformation to circulate online, including one suggestion that an asylum seeker by the name of Ali-Al-Shakati - which was invented - had arrived in the UK by boat in 2023.

This allowed misinformation to circulate online, including one suggestion that an asylum seeker by the name of Ali-Al-Shakati - which was invented - had arrived in the UK by boat in 2023. One tweet ...

The second, posted about five hours afterward, falsely suggested the suspect was an asylum seeker named “Ali-Al-Shakati” who was on an “MI6 watch list.” The post received about 27 million ...

When the news of the killings broke, far-right activists and politicians in the UK and abroad seized on false reports that the attacker was an asylum seeker named "Ali Al-Shakati" who had recently ...

It was fuelled by lies about the identity of the killer circulating on social media. He was a Muslim, it was claimed, his name was Ali al-Shakati, he’d arrived illegally on a small boat. The raging ...

A court heard that Mark Heath repeatedly posted false claims that the offender behind the attacks was an asylum seeker named Ali Al Shakati on X. He denied publishing "threatening, abusive or ...

Bernie Spofforth, an account-holder once temporarily removed from X for allegedly posting misinformation about Covid, said the suspect had been named as "Ali-Al-Shakati". In a statement the next ...