FACT CHECK · EUROPE: UK FREE SPEECH, MIGRATION
Claim: Thousands in the UK are jailed for social media posts
MISLEADINGTHE ANSWER
Arrested, not jailed: 12,183 arrests in 2023 under two online-message laws (about 33 a day, The Times FOI). The MoJ counts 1,119 sentencings that year, down from 1,995 in 2015; most were not prison.
SOURCE
The Times FOI via Free Speech Union; UK Ministry of Justice, 2023
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