‘Carnival of hysteria’ over Nicola Bulley highlights the harm social media can do

Nicola Bulley’s family speaking to the BBC after the inquest in Preston on Tuesday 27 June. Photograph: BBC News

Even now, amateur trolls, sleuths and psychics are posting wild and sensational conspiracy theories on social media about the death of Nicola Bulley.

Yet, as a coroner concluded on Tuesday, her death while tragic was the very opposite of wild and sensational.