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03.49 EDTAnti-Burnham fake news on Makerfield Facebook accounts has surged, report findsGood morning. Andy Burnham seems to be on course to win the Makerfield byelection on Thursday. But, if he does win, it will be despite a huge increase in the amount of hostile, fake news about him circulating on local Facebook groups.
- ▪03.49 EDTAnti-Burnham fake news on Makerfield Facebook accounts has surged, report findsGood morning.
- ▪Andy Burnham seems to be on course to win the Makerfield byelection on Thursday.
- ▪But, if he does win, it will be despite a huge increase in the amount of hostile, fake news about him circulating on local Facebook groups.
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03.49 EDTAnti-Burnham fake news on Makerfield Facebook accounts has surged, report findsGood morning. Andy Burnham seems to be on course to win the Makerfield byelection on Thursday. But, if he does win, it will be despite a huge increase in the amount of hostile, fake news about him circulating on local Facebook groups. This has been documented in a report out today by the Social Market Foundation thinktank that has important implications not just for Makerfield, but for how politics functions today in a social media environment awash with lies.In its report, the SMF says: double quotation markNearly 1 in 6 pieces of news shared in local Facebook groups during the campaign is false, with misinformation heavily targeting Labour and its candidate Andy Burnham, a new study has found.
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