Just to clarify since OP seems a bit confused himself. The granny made the incredibly mild comments about the councillor resigning as comments on both public and private Facebook posts, in response to the private WhatsApp group chat messages the councillor sent being leaked publicly.
That's the still active councillor of the ostensibly more progressive UK party in a WhatsApp group called "trigger me timbers" wishing conservatives voters would die and laughing at them getting hit by trucks. The granny who got the stasi treatment just went on generic local Facebook groups and said he should resign for that.
How did they discover this speech? Did one of the group turn her in?
Through investigating the WhatsApp messages of a former Labour MP.
As it stands, if you're in the UK, assume nothing you post is private and that everything can be seen by the Government.
As Orwell foretold.
Just to clarify since OP seems a bit confused himself. The granny made the incredibly mild comments about the councillor resigning as comments on both public and private Facebook posts, in response to the private WhatsApp group chat messages the councillor sent being leaked publicly.
That's the still active councillor of the ostensibly more progressive UK party in a WhatsApp group called "trigger me timbers" wishing conservatives voters would die and laughing at them getting hit by trucks. The granny who got the stasi treatment just went on generic local Facebook groups and said he should resign for that.