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Following the horrific attacks in Southport last summer, it was revealed that accounts on social media with relatively few followers had posted the wrong information about the identity of the attacker.

This triggered a cascade of misinformation which helped fuel days of riots, disorder and protests where people were injured, property was damaged, and lives were ruined.

The information shared by these accounts was wrong, and people were hurt.

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AI-generated content is right now being beamed to every smartphone and laptop in the world, creating a reality where everything, including facts, is up for debate.

With a change in leadership in Washington, this murky online world is the perfect environment for powerful people to ignore uncomfortable information by implying that facts are just another opinion.


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** Is Reform UK now the government’s ‘main opposition’? ([link removed])
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Following local elections earlier this month, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage claimed: “After tonight, there’s no question, in most of the country we are now the main opposition party to this government.”
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** Net migration is already projected to fall, before the government’s announcement ([link removed])
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This week, the government set out a number of measures intended to further control legal migration, saying net migration “must come down”.

But existing projections suggest this was already likely to happen.
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** ‘Home Office letter’ requisitioning former social club for migrants is fake ([link removed])
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A letter circulating on social media which appears to be from the Home Office informing two local councils in Gloucestershire that a former social club is to be requisitioned to become a leisure centre exclusively for migrants isn’t real.

Both councils, which are listed as recipients, have confirmed they have not received it. And the MP for Gloucester has issued a statement saying it is a “complete fabrication”.
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