If you logged on to the Irish media yesterday to read about the stabbing attack on a member of the Gardai which took place earlier this week, you would have quickly learned that the main story, as far as the media and the cops themselves were concerned, was not the attack but “misinformation”. Here is the Irish Times, which was by no means alone:
“A senior garda has warned against misinformation spreading online and urged people to get their news from credible sources following a knife attack on a garda in Dublin.
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