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How disinformation is fuelling the far right

Why you can trust Sky News

A judge has made the "exceptional" decision to name the聽17-year-old suspect charged with the murder of three girls in the Southport聽stabbing attack,聽in an attempt to聽prevent further misinformation about him聽being聽spreading online.

Reporting restrictions around the identification of a minor left an information vacuum into which disinformation spread, fuelling violence in towns across the country in recent days.

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On the Sky News Daily, Liz Bates speaks to our data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire to explore how disinformation is spread online and Joe Mulhall from Hope Not Hate explains the challenges of tackling the far-right ideology when it's not identified with a specific group.

Producer: Tom Pooley
Editor: Philly Beaumont
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku