2011 Mexican drug gang attack Twitter hoax

Hoaxes on social media January 2025 January 2025 On August 25, 2011 Gilberto Martínez Vera and María de Jesús Bravo Pagola made a series of fraudulent Twitter tweets alleging that an attack by drug gangs was in progress at an elementary school in Veracruz, Mexico. The tweets caused mass panic that was compared to the War of the Worlds panic.Dan Goodin. "Twitter users charged with terrorism for false tweets". The Register, 9/7/2011. The two were charged with terrorism and faced more than 30 years in jail."'Twitter terrorists' face 30 years in jail for inciting mass panic". The Sydney Morning Herald, 9/5/2011. The charges were later dropped.Mexico 'Twitter terrorism' charges dropped. BBC News, 9/22/2011. There were 26 car accidents as people left their cars in the middle of the streets, as they ran to pick up their children. References Further reading Diego Rivera Hernández Raúl "Nos están matando!": Professional Reflexivity on Violence Against Mexican Journalists in Contemporary Chronicles 2020 Narratives of Vulnerability in Mexico's War on Drugs 83–132 Diego Rivera Hernández Raúl https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-51144-9_3 2025-01-18 Cham Springer International Publishing en 10.1007/978-3-030-51144-9_3 978-3-030-51144-9 Beltrán Edith Mexico’s Fearscapes: Where Fantasy Personas Engage in Citizenship 2015-01-01 Fear and Fantasy in a Global World 75–98 https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789004306042/B9789004306042-s006.xml 2025-01-18 Brill en 978-90-04-30604-2 Sandoval-Almazan Rodrigo Government–Citizen Interactions Using Web 2.0 Tools: The Case of Twitter in Mexico 2012 Web 2.0 Technologies and Democratic Governance: Political, Policy and Management Implications 233–248 Reddick Christopher G. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4614-1448-3_15 2025-01-18 New York, NY Springer en 10.1007/978-1-4614-1448-3_15 978-1-4614-1448-3 Gil-Garcia J. Ramon Aikins Stephen K. CATEGORY:2011 hoaxes CATEGORY:2011 in Mexico CATEGORY:2011 crimes in Mexico CATEGORY:Terrorist incidents in North America in 2011 Category:Terrorist incidents in Mexico Category:August 2011 crimes in North America Category:August 2011 in Mexico Mexican drug gang attack Twitter hoax