The BBC tracks down a Canadian hockey player, a dad in Pakistan and a Texan named Kevin linked to Channel3Now.
What connects a dad living in Lahore in Pakistan, an amateur hockey player from Nova Scotia – and a man named Kevin from Houston, Texas?
They’re all linked to Channel3Now – a website whose story giving a false name for the 17-year-old charged over the Southport attack was widely quoted in viral posts on X. Channel3Now also wrongly suggested the attacker was an asylum seeker who arrived in the UK by boat last year.
This, combined with untrue claims the attacker was a Muslim from other sources, has been widely blamed for contributing to riots across the UK – some of which have targeted mosques and Muslim communities.
The UK is now seeing Soviet levels of propaganda with fake stories of '100 riots planned' by the 'far-right' which never happened supplanted with puff pieces for regime backed far-left 'counter-demonstrations'.#TwoTierKier pic.twitter.com/MwbMPl6kIQ
— David Kurten (@davidkurten) August 8, 2024
