Name and shame (campaign)
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Name and shame (campaign)
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"Name and shame" was a 2000 anti-pedophile public shaming campaign that resulted in several lynch-mob and firebomb attacks in England and Scotland, most having been directed at people wrongfully alleged to be pedophiles or child sex offenders. The campaign was launched by then top-selling tabloid journal News of the World, owned by press magnate Rupert Murdoch and edited by Rebekah Brooks. The newspaper would publish sensationalistic articles about indiscriminate types of sex offenders, in which
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British anti-pedophile campaign (2000)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_and_shame_(campaign)
date created:
2024-09-05T21:30:51Z
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2024-09-06T11:33:48Z
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