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how will fake news affect the UK election there's some new data about fake news surrounding the UK general election a survey conducted by broadband Genie found that 68% of those polled are either very or somewhat concerned that fake news could impact the general election 26% of those polled said they were not at all confident they could identify a fake news story if they saw one a study by the Oxford internet Institute found that 11% of content shared around the election were classified as junk news in this case junk news means a misleading deceptive or incorrect information purporting to be real news about politics economics or culture the Oxford internet Institute looked at data from Twitter and analyzed stories being spread by automated BOTS hashtags about the Labour Party appeared the most often with almost 62% of party specific tweets the Conservative Party grabbed about 17% the UK general election will take place on June 8th originally it was to take place on May 7th 2020 however the House of Commons agreed to an early election back in April of this year in case you're having trouble discerning real news from naught you can check out wolf backed org full fact is a nonprofit and nonpartisan fact-checking organization based in the UK for more information check out sue Netcom am i as a colonel see you online