The Netflix movie – The Accused was so intensely accurate in terms of what has happened and could indeed happen again to someone being wrongfully accused via our glorious social media ecosystem.

I had to stop watching it halfway through just to analyse the touch points (spoiler alert) –

Reading classification – personal threat, injury detail, discrimination, suicide

The victim profile

Threat / event	Possible risk counter measures
High number of followers 200+	Do you know all these people?
Open profile – public access to personal data, followers, posts etc	Limited how unknowns can tag you
Connected family and friend’s profiles are open and contain meta data such as location details, home address etc	Limited how unknowns can map your relationships
Phone location services open	Turn off when no Apps not in use
Images taken by 3rd party in public revealing location	Tough one to tackle as people are always snapping
CCTV data mapped with social media	Almost impossible to hide
Monitoring a hashtag in real time	No real reason to do this unless you are actually going to react
Online rumour pushed as fact	Response to accusations in real time by key social media channels, put out a pubic statement, engage a legal advisor.
Online threat to life reported by phone	Report online and get a crime number
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) data used to compile and share personal data on public forums anonymously.	Check yourself to see what you are sharing publicly