"Michael Mallinson, 77, had no idea what was happening until he got a panicked phone call around 6 p.m., while he was taking a nap. It was his daughter, instructing him to delete his social media because his name and photo were being spread online by an account claiming he was the suspect in the shooting. The problem: Mallinson says he's never set foot in Utah."
"The person detained appeared to be an older man wearing glasses and a blue shirt, with a haircut similar to one Mallinson had in a photo he posted on an old Twitter account. Mallinson says he thought he had deleted the account after the platform was purchased by Elon Musk. But the account had posted Mallinson's photo as a false close-up of the suspect, who was later released by police."
Michael Mallinson, 77, a retired banker in Toronto, was falsely identified online as the suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk despite never having been to Utah. He received a panicked phone call around 6 p.m. while napping; his daughter instructed him to delete his social media because his name and photo were being spread online by an account claiming he was the suspect. An account posing as Fox Reno 11 placed Mallinson’s photo beside an image of a detained older man; that detained man was later released by police. The post also falsely labeled Mallinson a registered Democrat in Utah. Charlie Kirk was shot in Orem, Utah; no suspect has been formally identified.
Read at www.cbc.ca
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