Must be a pretty shitty person to use the virality of missing posts to garner social media attention. I haven’t used FB in a long time but it seems to occur a fair bit according to other pieces.
**Martha from Ohio:** Shared locally! Hope it helps xx
People are quite gullible. If a person is really missing, the police will issue a statement. Link to that, and I might share the message. Otherwise, I have to assume that it is a fake.
It all comes down to the credible hulk – who always cites his sources.
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Must be a pretty shitty person to use the virality of missing posts to garner social media attention. I haven’t used FB in a long time but it seems to occur a fair bit according to other pieces.
[Police warn against interacting with posts about missing Surrey boy](https://fullfact.org/online/missing-boy-andrew-sanders/)
[Near-identical posts about a missing child called Tyler are fake](https://fullfact.org/online/missing-child-tyler/)
[Hoax posts about missing grandfather circulating on local Facebook groups](https://fullfact.org/online/missing-grandfather-Facebook-posts/)
**Martha from Ohio:** Shared locally! Hope it helps xx
People are quite gullible. If a person is really missing, the police will issue a statement. Link to that, and I might share the message. Otherwise, I have to assume that it is a fake.
It all comes down to the credible hulk – who always cites his sources.