Channel3Now's Misleading Role in Riots

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Southport attacks

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The real story of the website accused of fuelling Southport riots

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Channel3Now wrongly suggested the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year .

A false story giving a false name for the 17-year-old charged over the Southport attack was widely quoted in viral posts on X.com.

The BBC has tracked down several people linked to the site, including a man named Kevin from Houston , Texas .

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

Pro-Kremlin Telegram channels did reshare and amplify the site’s false posts.

Kevin said the site is a commercial operation and “covering as many stories as possible” The site has shared further false speculation about the Southport attacker and the person who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump .

Kevin says that the blame for the false Southport story cannot be laid squarely on a “small Twitter account” making “a mistake”.

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