By Rory Tingle, Home Affairs Correspondent and Izzy Lyons and Vivek Chaudhary , updated
A Pakistani father, an amateur Canadian hockey player and a man named Kevin from Texas have been identified as some of the figures involved in a shadowy fake news website that fuelled lies about the Southport stabbings.
Channel3Now, which masquerades as an American news website, published a false story claiming the stabbing suspect was an asylum seeker called Ali Al-Shakati who arrived in the UK on a small boat and was ‘on the MI6 watchlist’.
A social media post about the story on July 29 received millions of views and was widely shared on X by far-right influencers, who leapt on the false suggestion that the suspect – in reality a 17-year-old called Axel Rudakubana – was Muslim.
The online lies spread so far and so quickly that Merseyside Policewas forced to take the unusual step of …
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