McCanns using the Yeates family to attack posters on Twitter

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Joanna Yeates’ family have recently had more than their fair share of pain. But that did not stop GaeMar01 on twitter from falsely claiming Joanna Yeates’ father said there is no evidence that Madeleine McCann was abducted. This person was relying on the general public and followers to read the eye

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Joanna Yeates’ family have recently had more than their fair share of pain. But that did not stop GaeMar01 on twitter from falsely claiming Joanna Yeates’ father said there is no evidence that Madeleine McCann was abducted. This person was relying on the general public and followers to read the eye catching tweet and not have enough time to visit the link posted. If one had visited the link one would discover the utter lie that was tweeted.

The link takes one to an article written by Steven Morris and published in the Guardian, dated 31 January 2011. The title: Joanna Yeates’s body released to family for funeral. David Yeates – “We really feel for those people who have not been able to bury their children. The McCanns are one set of people like this but there are others as well. Whatever we have experienced, they probably had it a lot worse. We keep reminding ourselves that we are not unique.” Not one mention of the word “evidence” or “abduction”, that formed part of the lie that was so blatantly tweeted. The person (GaeMar01) uses the word “respect” in their tweet. What respect has this person for grieving parents of murdered Joanne Yeates and the families of missing children? None!

“Twitter is a social networking and microblogging service that allows you answer the question, “What are you doing?” by sending short text messages 140 characters in length, called “tweets”, to your friends or “followers”. The short format of the tweet is a defining characteristic of the service, allowing informal collaboration and quick information sharing that provides relief from rising email and IM fatigue.”- Twitter.

This ability to tweet information within the allowed 140 characters has led to many bits of information being ‘selectively procured’ from articles, to tweet. Information is wilfully taken out of context and posted on twitter, changing the intended meaning of the original material. This malicious intentional selective tweeting is just another form of abuse. The screen print of the Yeates-McCann tweet above is just one of many examples of how twitter is misused by others as a tool to smear and spread misinformation about the McCann case.

Although twitter is regulated….“We do not actively monitor user’s content and will not censor user content, except in limited circumstances”…, they do have the power to permanently suspend anyone’s account. Unfortunately the complaint procedure to get a person’s account suspended is not that easy and it doesn’t stop this type of person from creating another account and continuing on the road to smear and spread misinformation.

There are many people who use Twitter, not for malicious purpose but for what it is intended. To those who think they are allowed to spread lies and misinformation on the McCann case just remember that although Twitter is not monitoring you, YOU ARE still responsible and will be held accountable for your tweets.

http://madeleine-writingthewrongs.com/2011/02/08/hashtag-mccann-%E2%80%93-the-wilful-and-intentional-lies-and-abuse-on-twitter/


They might at least have had the decency to wait until after Jo's funeral, before dragging her family into their web of lies and deceipt. They have no shame.

Seems like they will drag in or link to anyone who helps strategy  ?PR advisor ideas, SY now will be writing the wrongs thoroughly Hopefully uk.