UK police arrest 33 people per day for posting offensive messages online

Summary

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66% Informative

In 2023 , police arrested 12,183 people for posting offensive messages, up 58 percent from 2019 .

Convictions have dropped by nearly half since 2015 , with only 1,119 sentenced in 2023 .

Police defend their actions as lawful but sometimes admit to heavy-handed approaches.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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