The rampant circus of conspiracy theories and trolling which threaten to hamper the search for Jay Slater: How the probe into missing Brit has been hijacked by cruel social media ghouls, sleuths and attacks on his family
The desperate search for the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer continues today - a week after he went missing in Tenerife last Monday.
His family are all on the Spanish island as mountain rescuers with dogs and drones search for him as donations by generous Britons to a fundraising page set up by his best friend to support the search has already passed £32,000.
But trolls, amateur sleuths and psychics have sparked a carnival of hysteria and chaos surrounding the investigation by spreading wild and even malicious theories about his disappearance on social media – including the sick idea that he has faked his disappearance to pocket the GoFundMe cash.
Conspiracy theorist David Icke has now waded in making unfounded claims on Facebook about people traffickers and a 'bonkers' cover up claim about it being linked to the power cut at Manchester Airport yesterday, while others have levelled unsubstantiated allegations about possible mafia involvement.
There are also theories about a white car seen in a picture and on Google Streetview - and ridiculous suggestions including he has run away to join ISIS.
These cruel posts have also caused Jay's family significant heartache on top of their anxiety and grief as the search continues - with his mother today confronting members of a Facebook conspiracy theory group and telling them she feels 'very let down' by their sniping. Vile social media trolls have even compared her to Karen Matthews.
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The desperate search for the 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer continues today - a week after he went missing in Tenerife last Monday.
His family are all on the Spanish island as mountain rescuers with dogs and drones search for him as donations by generous Britons to a fundraising page set up by his best friend to support the search has already passed £32,000.
But trolls, amateur sleuths and psychics have sparked a carnival of hysteria and chaos surrounding the investigation by spreading wild and even malicious theories about his disappearance on social media – including the sick idea that he has faked his disappearance to pocket the GoFundMe cash.
Conspiracy theorist David Icke has now waded in making unfounded claims on Facebook about people traffickers and a 'bonkers' cover up claim about it being linked to the power cut at Manchester Airport yesterday, while others have levelled unsubstantiated allegations about possible mafia involvement.
There are also theories about a white car seen in a picture and on Google Streetview - and ridiculous suggestions including he has run away to join ISIS.
These cruel posts have also caused Jay's family significant heartache on top of their anxiety and grief as the search continues - with his mother today confronting members of a Facebook conspiracy theory group and telling them she feels 'very let down' by their sniping. Vile social media trolls have even compared her to Karen Matthews.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...erife.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"