Two men face four year sentence for inciting riots on Facebook

Two British men in their twenties were sentenced to four years in prison on Tuesday for Facebook pages they created. 

20-year-old Jordan Blackshaw and 22-year-old Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan both created events last week encouraging rioting in their northwest England town of Warrington.

According to prosecutor Martin McRobb, the two men acted independently. McRobb said the men were wrong to believe that inciting disorder from the safety of the virtual world would not have real world consequences.