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"In these Makerfield groups... all of the misinformation we saw was anti-Labour or pro-Reform."
SMF found areas with no or limited local news outlets had nearly 3 times as much fake news as the national average... 4.4 million people in the UK live in a ‘news desert’
1 in 6 pieces of news shared in local Facebook groups during the Makerfield campaign is false, with misinformation heavily targeting Labour.
