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 theres farhan. Hes a dad who appears to be based in lahore in pakistan. When i reached out to farhan, he blocked me. But ive confirmed both of their identities by speaking to People who know
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, weve been tellIng you a lot about how mIsInformatIon, false claIms on SocIal MedIa, have been accused of fuellIng rIots In the uk. Ive been InvestIgatIng where Its comIng from and why Its 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 the
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cell disease in england. a lockdown in austria for anyone who hasn t been vaccinated against covid comes into force. a nine year old boy has died after being injured during a crowd surge at the astroworld festival in texas after panic broke out during the performance by the rapper travis scott. assurances there will definitely be enough turkeys for christmas after fears there could be a shortage. and norwich city rooted at the bottom of the premier league confirm former aston villa boss, dean smith as their new manager. hello and welcome to bbc news. the security service, mi5, has been called in to assist counter terrorism police investigating yesterday s car explosion outside a hospital in liverpool. one man has been killed and another injured in the incident. three men have been arrested under the terrorism act after several houses were evacuated in the city. the explosion happened just before 11am on remembrance sunday. james reynolds report contains flashing images
night going out on patrols in to no man s land and try and dominate. the chinese, when they invaded, there was a long tunnel on the hook with gun placements and the chinese were throwing themselves with explosives, threw themselves into the tunnel, blew themselves up. like a suicide type attack? suicide. after months in the line, mike learned that the war was about to end. the ceasefire has been signed we cease firing at 10:00 tonight. well, more or less along the whole front, we stopped firing. we stopped shelling them, they stopped shelling us and mortar sounds went off. but they were mortar sounds, not of mortars coming at us, kind of flares going up. so we had the sky lit up by chinese and now coloured flares. celebrating it? it was a fireworks night, literally. and the next morning we got out and obviously we had a sense of elation and we got out of our trenches and actually sunbathed, because it was a lovely time of the year. and one of the chinese trenches waved to u