Police took over a week to name the NYC subway burning victim. A fake name spread in the meantime

It took police more than a week to publicly identify 57-year-old Debrina Kawam as the woman who was fatally set on fire in a New York subway train on Dec. 22. But on the internet, it took just hours for a false name to begin spreading. In posts that circulated widely on social media after Kawam’s death, users claimed without...