One of the first pages to share false information about the southport tragedy was this unregulated news site called channel3 now. They wrote a story about the stabbings in southport and quickly posted it on social media. Some of the details were correct, but the name of the 17 year old charged was false and the article wrongly suggested that the alleged attacker was here seeking asylum. Nevertheless, it was widely quoted and shared, often by accounts posting disinformation and far right ideas. And because the site name sounded like a news station, people might have been less likely to question it. Now, because of what happened in the uk this week, i tracked down some of the people linked to channel3 now to find out who they are. James is an amateur hockey player from nova scotia in canada. And then there s farhan. He s a dad who appears to be based in lahore in pakistan. When i reached out to farhan, he blocked me. But i ve confirmed both of their identities by speaking to people who k
Was fuelled in part by mis information, spread on social media about the alleged killer. Our disinformation correspondent, marianna spring, has tracked down some of the people behind one of the first posts publishing false information, and asked them why they did it. All this week, we ve been telling you a lot about how misinformation, false claims on social media, have been accused of fuelling riots in the uk. I ve been investigating where it s coming from and why it s being shared. One of the first pages to share false information about the southport tragedy was this unregulated news site called channel3 now. They wrote a story about the stabbings in southport and quickly posted it on social media. Some of the details were correct, but the name of the 17 year old charged was false and the article wrongly suggested that the alleged attacker was here seeking asylum. Nevertheless, it was widely quoted and shared, often by accounts posting disinformation and far right ideas. And because
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Killing at least 12 people accoding to the ukrainian interior minister. Four men are being sentenced following protests in leeds as uk prime minister sir keir starmer says police should remain on high alert after a week of rioting across england and northern ireland. A councillor in dartford, in kent, has been charged with one count of encouraging violent disorder after he was filmed addressing a crowd at a london demonstration on wednesday. Rickyjones, who is 57, has been suspended by labour in relation to the video. Another teenager has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to attack taylor swift concerts in vienna. And lee carsley has been announced as interim manager of the england men s football team he says it s an honour to step up and lead the squad . Hello, i m ben brown. Now with all the latest sport here s hugh. The first gold medal of day m at the paris olympics was also the final one to be won in the river seine. The water quality has been a constant source of
The son of the bangladesh prime minister has said his mother does intend to return to the country. The son of the bangladesh former prime minister, sheikh hasina, has told indian media that his mother plans to return to the country when fresh elections are called. Ms hasina quit and fled to neighbouring india on monday, following weeks of deadly protests against her government, sparked by anger about civil servicejob quotas. A caretaker government led by the nobel peace prize winner muhammad yunus was sworn in on thursday and will be tasked with holding elections. Our south asia correspondent, samira hussain, spoke to the locals in dhaka. We ve already heard from this caretaker administration and muhammad yunus, in which they have divided a lot of the government ministries to the panel of advisers that they have assembled as part of this interim government until they get a more stable government in place. So they ve really divvied up all the different departments amongst these differen