The original missing persons list was also made higher by fraudulent cases, police said, with some individuals attempting to benefit financially from the tragedy.
Obviously that’s going to be a go-to statistics for the right-wing papers but personally I see that as pretty disturbing. Claiming to be dead isn’t exactly a small thing. “Benefit financially” could well mean getting out of a crushing credit card debt or something 
That’s basically a strong mark of desperation in my view.
Perhaps it’s not a case of “claiming to be dead”, as such, but claiming someone else is? Dunno. Regardless, it’s utterly tragic and there’s definitely a more sensitive way to report on this that would avoid feeding the right-wing press in the way you’ve rightly identified.
As wza said I took it as meaning more people saying other people had died. This was in the news a while ago;
Interim report into building regs says that they’re unfit for purpose, and places most of the blame on the increasing privatisation of building control, lack of supervision of construction, and the increased risk/responsibility assumed by contractors:
I know you shouldn’t read the replies but people* still blaming the guy who owned the fridge is breathtaking in its ignorance.
*racists
It’s worth reading this whole thread:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PeteApps/status/967025076456579072
The article is here:
(you need to register to read it)
Wrong thread
So long as we’re all agreed it’s the Tories’ fault.
If you’ve got a spare half an hour, said godfather gave an interview with Jon Snow yesterday. Don’t have much to add but it covers the build up to the tragedy and the response since, shocking and compelling in equal measure.
So Andrew O’Hagan has been rightly criticised for his terrible (60,000 word!) piece in the LRB about Grenfell. There are numerous dissections of it online eg
https://twitter.com/lukewbarratt/status/1001763259467354112
https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1001968109908037632
https://twitter.com/kadhimshubber/status/1001980414741839873
https://twitter.com/EdmundGriffiths/status/1001821397977616385
But don’t worry, it’s been getting praise in other quarters…
Well I’m really pleased to have just paid a tenner to go to an unrelated event at their bookshop next week. 
This critique is worth a read too
Given the press’s attempts to go after the FBU, I wondered when this would happen:
I don’t really understand why O’Hagan was asked to write such a piece. He’s primarily a novelist whose previous works of lengthy non-fiction have been generally novelistic in style or autobiographical (like his piece about being Assange’s ghostwriter, which was very entertaining). Asking him to write a novel-length study on a such a complex issue which is still in many ways unfolding seems… unwise at best?
This is worth a listen:
Given how the press have been going after fire officers this week, this thread is worth a read:
Seems to have been deleted. I guess they got a lot of shit for it?