Social media posts draw police, council and campus responses in same week

Three separate local reports this week show social media posts moving from personal feeds into the remit of elected office, policing, and university guidance.

BBC News Somerset reported that Dr Bharat Pankhania said he would step down after reposting antisemitic conspiracies on social media, but remains in post [1][6]. In a separate case, Suffolk Police said they are investigating "multiple reports" of a "disgusting" social media post released following the death of three-year-old Noah Woods; the Gazette Series, Stroud News and Journal, Wiltshire Times and Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard all reported the investigation [2][3][4][5]. And Epigram, the University of Bristol student paper, advised freshers to consume university-related content on social media with a grain of salt, asking how truthful such posts are and whether they perpetuate a toxic approach to the first year [7].

Read together, they show online posts prompting responses from a councillor, police and a student newspaper.