alt Hacker NewsEveryone in London knows what happens if you try to report "minor" street crime.
Obviously everyone saying the UK isn't a utopia is a Russian bot, and we should be censoring them.
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youngtaff • yesterday at 5:14 PM
"Everyone knows" says someone who now lives in Montreal!
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Fine, but also how to explain the crazy claims flying around the internet that London is a warzone and a no-go area? I live here and... seriously, nothing has changed. I feel perfectly safe and always have.
Yeah sure, there's some phone theft, it's not great. This phone theft wave is just a symptom of everyone carrying £500 devices around. Big cities have always had theft, pickpocket and snatching crimes. But it's nothing astonishingly new or different. I know one person who had their phone snatched, never seen it happen myself.
So how to explain this massive wave of social media posts making out that London's unsafe? There is definitely a narrative being pushed, whether by Russian bots or not, I cannot say.