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Fake news not yet an issue in general election campaign, says head of fact-checking charity

By Freddy Mayhew

Fake news seems to be a “relatively limited” problem in the UK general election so far, according to the head of a fact-checking charity that is helping to keep tabs on the issue.

Full Fact director Will Moy told Press Gazette: “It’s more a case that somebody is wrong on the internet than fake news is in anyway systematically distorting the election.”

But he stressed it was still “early days” ahead of polling day on 8 June.

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