False Missing Child Posts Spread on Facebook: What You Need to Know
\nViral Facebook posts claiming a young boy was found alone at night by a police officer in either Hereford or King\u2019s Lynn have been confirmed as false. <\/p>\n
The posts, shared in large community groups, include images of a bruised child and claim he was rescued by \u201cDeputy Tyler Cooper.\u201d They urge people to \u201cflood feeds\u201d to help find the child\u2019s family<\/p>\n
However, West Mercia Police confirmed no such incident occurred in Hereford and that no officer named Tyler Cooper exists on their force. Norfolk Constabulary also confirmed the story did not happen in King\u2019s Lynn and that the rank of \u201cdeputy\u201d isn\u2019t used in their organization.
\nThese are hoax posts\u2014a troubling trend on Facebook. They often exploit emotional triggers, then later get edited to promote scams, like cashback websites or real estate ads. To avoid being misled:
\nBe wary of posts with disabled comments.
\nCheck if the post is shared word-for-word in multiple locations.
\nLook for a credible source or news report.
\nReport suspicious content directly to Facebook.<\/p>\n
These hoaxes can overwhelm local groups and spread misinformation. Meta has been urged to take stronger action to address this growing problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
False Missing Child Posts Spread on Facebook: What You Need to Know Viral Facebook posts claiming a young boy was found alone at night by a police officer in either Hereford or King\u2019s Lynn have been confirmed as false. The posts, shared in large community groups, include images of a bruised child and claim he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3444,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timeshow.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}