‘Repost hateful messages about disorder online and you could end up in court’

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson also said extradition would “of course” be considered for people posting online about inciting UK riots while out of the country if it is “serious criminality”. “So, if you retweet or you reshare those communications, you will be picked up and you may expect a visit from the police, so please don’t do it.” Regional organised crime units are looking closely at online incitement, particularly from “higher end offenders, senior organisers and known influencers”, police sources said. We work very closely with governments and criminal justice agencies, I’m part of a network of European prosecutors, so there’s lots of links with criminal justice agencies in other countries, which means that we can make mutual legal assistance requests to gather evidence Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson Action “will be taken” against “higher influence keyboard warriors, who are inciting serious violence”, the source said. Police have seen activity across all social media platforms – “It’s across Facebook, it’s across X. X is particularly in the limelight, and that is where a lot of the content is,” the source said.