Social media, hashtags and the search for Corrie Mckeague – BBC

Social media, hashtags and the search for Corrie Mckeague 10 hours ago George King and Laura Foster, Suffolk Supplied Corrie Mckeague disappeared 10 years ago after a night out Desperate for answers after the disappearance of her son, Nicola Urquhart went online and set up a Find Corrie Facebook page – little did she know how big it would become. RAF gunner Corrie Mckeague, 23, went missing on 24 September 2016, after wandering the streets of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, having been separated from his friends following a night of drinking. The mystery surrounding his disappearance became a source of fascination, speculation and crowd-sourced detective work to online supporters who called themselves “Corrie’s Army”. The #FindCorrie hashtag frequently trended on Twitter and Nicola’s Facebook page grew to 120,000 followers. Ten years on, did social media help or hinder the search for Corrie? ‘Corrie would have been TikTok famous’ Laura Foster/BBC Corrie’s mum Nicola Urquhart never stopped searching for her son The airman, who became a dad to daughter Ellie nine months after his disappearance, was officially declared dead in 2022, but his body has never been found. After years of searching an inquest ruled he had died after climbing into
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