Anti-Burnham fake news on Makerfield Facebook accounts has surged, report finds – UK politics live (opens in new tab)

Nearly one in six pieces of news shared in local Facebook groups during the campaign is false, Social Market Foundation report findsGood morning. Andy Burnham seems to be 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 by the Social Market Foundation thinktank that has important implications not just for Makerfield, but for how politics functions today in a soci...