The website has routinely changed its name and has gone by 'Fox3 Now' and 'Fox3 News' in an apparent attempt to copy the names of legitimate news organisations. It appears to be using internet servers in the US and is registered with an online hosting company in Lithuania, but has privacy features that hide its owner's identity.
The first mention of the suspect's false name appears to have been shared to the near 50,000 followers of well-known UK anti-lockdown activist Bernadette Spofforth. Before the victims had been identified, Mrs Spofforth, 55, wrote at 4.49pm: 'Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect, he was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list. If this is true, then all hell is about to break loose.' It came at 4.49pm on Monday, around five hours after the attack that left three primary school girls who were attending a Taylor Swift-themed dance event dead. Two minutes later, the details appeared on Channel3 Now, where they were amplified to millions of people across the internet.
#Channel3Now (shadowy fake news website) started life 11 years ago as a Russian YouTube channel that posted videos of rally-driving in the snow in Izhevsk, a Russian city about 750 miles east of Moscow.
#Spofforth #racist #fascist #Melville #Southport
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