Square Mile schlägt zurück: Wie die City of London Desinformation über Kriminalität bekämpft
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/28/city-of-london-fighting-disinformation-crime?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Von topotaul
Square Mile schlägt zurück: Wie die City of London Desinformation über Kriminalität bekämpft
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/28/city-of-london-fighting-disinformation-crime?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Von topotaul
6 Kommentare
Its kind of wild how bad disinformation about London has gotten, its one of the safest major cities in Europe, and is safer than almost all US cities, yet people talk like you need a stab just vest to walk down the street.
Really glad so many major publishers are now beginning to make counter-misinformation counter about it.
Part of this is misinformation coming from both rivals and allies. It ranges from the EU, who wanted to paint the UK as Fascism Island post-2016 to empower their own finance sector. To the Saudis who are offering massive benefits to the rich and investors. To Russian-paid „travel“ bloggers and the others.
That said, let’s not pretend crime is down when our prisons are so dangerously full that people are serving now under half their sentences and Lammy wants to end jury trials because so many cases are backlogged. Generally there’s a perception now we are weak on hard crime but extremely harsh on speech and things like porn.
No matter how bad the misinformation it doesn’t seem to have an effect on rental prices or the number of people desperate to live there.
The use of the word disinformation is very important here. Disinformation is much more deliberate and malicious than misinformation. And that’s exactly what happening here.
It’s about time, we can’t just succumb to the bullshit…the viral anti-marketing. Institutions need to fight back.
The City is run differently to the rest of London. Much cleaner and safer. Of course we don’t learn from this apply its lessons to the rest of the country.