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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
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Is this straight up misinformation? I've been through 6 articles now and I can't find any other source on this outside of Skwawkbox.
All I can find is stuff about him being a major person behind the Good Friday Agreement and HK + Chagos Islands handovers.
Even the Telegraph and fucking GB News – both of which try to paint Labour/Starmer in the worst light possible – don't say anything about Pinochet. Where does this alleged link come from?
Looking into it, Skwawkbox has been caught lying multiple times, predominantly about the Grenfell Fire. They've also lost a libel case against one Labour MP and breached reporting standards about another. They, and I'm really not joking here, describe themselves as a non-traditional publication aimed at "aunties and uncles on Facebook".
If anybody has any other sources please correct me on this.
I just assume every skwawkbox link is misinformation.
If not in an absolute sense then always by ommission.