16-09-2022 16:11 via theguardian.com

Dutch town takes Twitter to court over unfounded satanic paedophile claims

Bodegraven-Reeuwijk has been plagued by a conspiracy theory and wants tweets spreading it removedA small Dutch town took Twitter to court on Friday to demand the social media company take down all messages relating to a supposed ring of Satan-worshipping paedophiles alleged to have been active in the town in the 1980s.Bodegraven-Reeuwijk, a town of about 35,000 inhabitants in the middle of the Netherlands, has been the focus of conspiracy theories on social media since 2020, when three men start
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