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Originally Posted by bots

Police in Arizona say family members of Nancy Guthrie have been cleared as possible suspects, as speculation grows on social media about the whereabouts of the missing 84-year-old mother of NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie.

"The family has been nothing but co-operative and gracious and are victims in this case," said the Pima County Sheriff's Office, which has been leading the investigation.

"To suggest otherwise is not only wrong, it is cruel," the office said in a statement.

The Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News, external that his office sent out the statement because people had been "attacking the innocent".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd93rl849xo

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Time will tell if this announcement ages well or not

…yeah I read this earlier, I think that sadly the family have had much negativity directed at them…this is the thing with ‘online’ and social media etc and generally the world we live in …speculation can quickly evolve and become something much darker and more worrying ….off topic but I’m watching Traitors, Ireland atm…and without giving huge spoilers, when one person was banished at the round table, they then made a comment about how they’d been banished and it being ‘mean’….I’m sure it was a ‘knee jerk’ comment in a moment….anyway, it apparently led to much online abuse and backlash and ‘hate’ for the contestants it was aimed at…it’s incredible and terrifying how much weight that words can have in our online world…