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The real story of the news website accused of fuelling riots

Marianna Spring
BBC disinformation and social media correspondent

bbc.com/news/articles/c5y38gjp

They’re all linked to Channel3Now - a website whose story giving a false name for the 17-year-old charged over the Southport attack was widely quoted in viral posts on X.

Apparently they do it for the money, X ad revenue, as well as flooding the actual website with adverts & I do mean flooding it with ads

Kevin claims there are “more than 30” people in the US, UK, Pakistan and India who work for the site

“Just because we purchased a YouTube channel from a Russian seller doesn't mean we have any affiliations,” Kevin says.

There is no hard evidence it is connected to Russia

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