Dublin operations centre to target political misinformation ahead of EU elections in May.
The French president said the vote was sold by "anger mongers backed by fake news" as UK faces leaving the EU in less than a month.
French President Emmanuel Macron has outlined his vision for Europe's future, urging reform of its passport-free Schengen area and setting up a new agency to protect against fake news.
Fake, foreign and far-right: Dodgy accounts uncovered pushing Brexit agenda on social media
12/03/2019
Research has identified how political extremists outside of the UK have been amplifying online pro-Leave views on Brexit.
Dominic Cummings: Vote Leave chief found in contempt of parliament over refusal to give evidence to 'fake news' inquiry
27/03/2019
MPs warn Cummings' behaviour highlights weaknesses in parliament’s ability to force witnesses to attend hearings - and to punish those who stay away.
Avaaz uncovers 500 accounts using fake news to spread white supremacy message. / A web of far-right Facebook accounts spreading fake news and hate speech to millions of people across Europe has been uncovered by the campaign group Avaaz.
The watchful volunteers have recruited an international force of thousands to help stem disinformation, writes Kim Sengupta.
Civil servants in the Cabinet Office will run a new unit to tackle 'misleading' stories about no deal Brexit.
Are political journalists being conned by Number 10 and spreading lies? / The veteran journalist Peter Oborne has accused some of the UK’s biggest news outlets of effectively becoming clients of Boris Johnson’s government and of spreading fake news.
George Osborne also waded into the row after his newspaper, the Evening Standard, ran a story accusing the Tories of misleading the public.
Fake news row as Tory chiefs claim Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal has already 'passed' Parliament
24/10/2019
Conservative chiefs sparked a fake news row today by claiming that Boris Johnson’s landmark Brexit deal had already “passed” Parliament.
European Commission president says ‘bulls***’ was responsible for Brexit.
Conservatives post misleading edited video to suggest Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary can’t answer question
05/11/2019
The Conservatives have been accused of releasing a misleading campaign video after doctoring footage to falsely suggest that a senior Labour figure had been unable to answer a question about Brexit.
On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from a staple in most community college curriculums.
Ursula von der Leyen hits out at Britain over plans to breach agreement on Northern Ireland.
Tory party urges activists to campaign like Trump by ‘weaponising fake news’ and ‘fighting wokeism’
15/12/2020
‘There are lessons that we can learn from Trump….a lie can go round the world before the truth can get its boots on’.
Prime minister called the claim ‘fake news’ - but leaked email to Foreign Office staff confirmed it.