Flurry of ITV News items about the McCanns in the last two days (4 & 5 October)

by **Tony Bennett** 05.10.15 14:37

ITV have been busy, it seems, pumping out news stories about the McCanns in the past two days.

I have counted three stories so far:

STORY 1

'Find Ben Needham' Twitter blocked by official 'Find Madeleine McCann' account

http://www.itv.com/news/calendar/2015-10-04/find-ben-needham-twitter-blocked-by-official-find-madeleine-mccann-account/

STORY 2

'Find Ben Needham' Twitter UN-BLOCKED by official 'Find Madeleine McCann' account
www.itv.com/news/calendar/update/2015-10-04/find-ben-needham-account-unblocked-by-find-madeleine-campaign/

STORY 3

Find Madeleine close Twitter account

http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2015-10-05/find-madeleine-twitter-account-to-close-due-to-abuse/

Which was about this tweet overnight:

Find Madeleine ‏@ findmadeleine · 14h 14 hours ago

Due to the continuous abuse and negativity on Twitter, we will be removing our account within the next few days.

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So the timeline over the past few days has been:

28th September: Peter Scharrenberg announces new book: 'Madeleine: The Impossible Kidnapping'

1st October: GoFundMe supporters urge more donations so that Goncalo Amaral legal defence fund can reach £48,000 - £1,000 for each of the 48 unanswerd questions

2nd October: Goncalo Amaral's birthday (57th?) - floods of goodwill messages on social media from around the world - Goncalo Amaral GoFundMe donations 'top' £48,000

3rd October: Angry outburst from Kate McCann/Find Madeleine Webmaster telling people to stop posting negative messages and hindering the search for Madeleine

3rd October: Goncalo Amaral's legal defence fund suddenly stops being lisred when key words are typed into Google [contributed by 'pennylane'].

4th October: McCanns block Ben Needham Twitter account

4th October: ITV run story on blocking of Ben Needham Twitter account - McCanns respond swiftly and decide to unblock Ben Needham account

4th October: ITV run story on the unblocking of the Ben Needham account

4th October, approx. midnight: McCanns say they will withdraw from Twitter in a few days

5th October: Peter Scharrenberg book withdrawn after bad review pointing out numerous errors

5th October: Daily Star hack Jerry Lawton runs feature explaining how it's internet trolls funding Goncalo Amaral's appeal

5th October: Sun: Trolls cause McCanns to withdraw Find Madeleine from Twitter
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6676119/Hunt-for-Maddie-dealt-fresh-blow.html

by pennylane 05.10.15 14:41

also 3/4 Oct

Goncalo Amaral's defence fund suddenly stops coming forward when key words are typed into google.

by plebgate 05.10.15 17:48

Would MSM report if admin from this site told them they were closing due to abusive and negative messages?

Would they eck as like.

by aiyoyo 05.10.15 18:07

Strange that they would close down Twitter account when social media is the modern day in trend to rely messages and the spread the words if they want to continue urging people to look for her.
Maybe they knew better, knew that Madeleine is beyond recovering.

They knew knew exactly what happened to her.

by sonic72 07.10.15 23:19

I noticed Amaral's fund no longer came up in google. I used to type 'amaral fund' every time to go to the fund page and it was always the first listing to come up, but it has now mysteriously disappeared from google. Now an article about Amaral's fund on the miscarriageofjustice site is first in the list!

Dodgy!

by Richard IV 07.10.15 23:34

If you have it book-marked, I don`t think it is searched via google. Maybe if most people now have it book-marked, it is not searched for via google anymore so goes further down their list. The site comes up 2nd in my book-marked list after I just type in `A`.

by comperedna 08.10.15 12:39

'gofundme Amaral' put into Bing brings up the correct site first, as it used to be first in Google. Someone on this site said to use Bing.

Someone else, who knows a LOT more about websites than me, said it was likely that an IT savvy TM supporter had 'fixed' the gofundme site under Google by somehow sending in a spoiler mini programme to attach to i,t so the Amaral page won't come up as it should. Another contributor said Google itself had somehow been 'leaned on'. I wonder which it was.

by whodunit 09.10.15 19:56

sonic72 wrote:I noticed Amaral's fund no longer came up in google. I used to type 'amaral fund' every time to go to the fund page and it was always the first listing to come up, but it has now mysteriously disappeared from google. Now an article about Amaral's fund on the miscarriageofjustice site is first in the list!

Dodgy!

Keyword hijacked.

Flurry of ITV News items about the McCanns in the last two days (4 & 5 October)

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Amelie McCann (aged 2): "Maddie's jammies!".

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