{"id":1019,"date":"2024-08-21T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/man-arrested-in-pakistan-for-alleged-role-in-spreading-disinformation-linked-to-uk-riots\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T19:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T19:01:14","slug":"man-arrested-in-pakistan-for-alleged-role-in-spreading-disinformation-linked-to-uk-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/man-arrested-in-pakistan-for-alleged-role-in-spreading-disinformation-linked-to-uk-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Pakistan for alleged role in spreading disinformation linked to UK riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Pakistan\u2019s Federal Investigation Authority\u00a0arrested a man on Tuesday who it claimed had spread disinformation thought to have enflamed the recent unrest in the UK.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            According to the FIA statement the \u201carticle contained a false claim about the arrest of a Muslim asylum seeker by police in the stabbing incident in a dance party in Southport on July 29, 2024.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The FIA confirmed that the man has not been charged.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Police\u00a0in Lahore have identified\u00a0the man, arrested by the FIA,\u00a0as\u00a0Farhan Asif, and that he was questioned about the article on Monday.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            It\u2019s unclear if Asif has an attorney.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            Asif told police he would earn close to a thousand dollars a month by doing this,\u00a0according to the official.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            After a statement from UK police,\u00a0after\u00a0the riots, Asif claims he deleted the story and issued an immediate apology.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph-primary-core-light\">            The UK faced its worst disorder in more than a decade, after outbreaks of far-right, anti-immigrant violence swept the country. Protests first broke out late last month, after\u00a0an anti-immigrant misinformation campaign stoked outrage over a stabbing attack that left three children dead in Southport, northern England.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Federal Investigation Authority\u00a0arrested a man on Tuesday who it claimed had spread disinformation thought to have enflamed the recent unrest in the UK. According to the FIA statement the \u201carticle contained a false claim about the arrest of a Muslim asylum seeker by police in the stabbing incident in a dance party in Southport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}