A video has gone viral in a tweet that says is a looting incident at a Walmart in Fairfield. As it turns out, it was a fake tweet but the damage had already been done.
As soon as the Fairfield Police Department found out about the tweet, it sent out a response on social media right away saying it was untrue. The problem was by that point, the tweet had gone viral, sending panic into the community."Honestly, sometimes I don't believe the stuff that I see," April Villa from Solano County told KPIX."That's how I think."
"One of the biggest things is instilling fear in the community, which results in them calling us again," said Officer Jennifer Brantley with the Fairfield Police Department."Calling the emergency line and that line can get tied up if we're inundated with calls and people who have an actual emergency will have to wait."
Brantley said the department reached out to Twitter asking for for help to correct the situation but the company only responded with an asterisk message roughly a day later.
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