Tag: Michael Dugher MP

• Saturday, January 14th 2017 - 09:36 UTC

  Labour and BBC warn on risks of being infected by contagion of fake news stories

  

  British politics risks being “infected by the contagion” of fake news stories, a senior Labour MP has said. Michael Dugher said the problem was not confined to the US and news outlets everywhere had a duty to scrutinise politicians on the basis of “truth and reality” not “click-bait nonsense”.