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MEXICO CITY — Think before you tweet. A former teacher and a math tutor sit in a prison in southern Mexico, facing possible 30-year sentences for terrorism and sabotage in what might be the most serious charges ever brought against anyone using a Twitter social network account.
Prosecutors say the defendants helped cause a chaos of car crashes and panic as parents in the Gulf Coast city of Veracruz rushed to save their children because of false reports that gunmen were attacking schools.
The charges say the messages caused such panic that emergency numbers “totally collapsed because people were terrified,” damaging service for real emergencies.
