Dutch town takes Twitter to court over unfounded satanic paedophile claims
by Reuters in The Hague from Technology | The Guardian on (#63Q1N)
Bodegraven-Reeuwijk has been plagued by a conspiracy theory and wants tweets spreading it removed
A small Dutch town took Twitter to court on Friday to demand the social media company take down all messages relating to a supposed ring of Satan-worshipping paedophiles alleged to have been active in the town in the 1980s.
Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, a town of about 35,000 inhabitants in the middle of the Netherlands, has been the focus of conspiracy theories on social media since 2020, when three men started spreading unfounded stories about the abuse and murder of children they said took place in the town in the 1980s.
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