Before the fire and fury in Southport, there was a name – Ali Al-Shakati. Al-Shakati has never existed, we now know, but that didn’t stop an obscure, Russian-linked fake news outlet from ...

Social media posts claimed the attacker was a man called Ali Al-Shakati, a Muslim asylum seeker who arrived in the UK on a small boat last year and was on an MI6 watchlist.. None of it was true. A ...

He was “Ali al-Shakati,” a “17-year-old asylum-seeker,” a website called Channel3 Now reported. Claims that the suspect was a Muslim migrant provoked a week of unrest across England.

Mr Heath said: "Ali Al Shakati is a name that was circulated from a false news channel, which a lot of people got took in by, obviously me included. It was wildfire on X." ...

Posts on social media have incorrectly named the suspect arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing of three children in Southport as “Ali Al-Shakati”.. Eight other children and two adults were ...

Website Channel3 Now spread fake news that the triple murder suspect was an asylum seeker with the fake name Ali Al-Shakati, who arrived in the UK on a small boat and was on the MI6 watchlist ...

How lies and disinformation about Southport knife attack suspect led to riots. False claims about suspect’s identity were seen by millions of people on social media prior to the unrest ...

Russian-linked fake news outlet Channel3 tweeted false information about the Southport stabbing suspect. However, in the immediate aftermath of the killings a social media account named Channel3 ...

Ms Spofforth is understood to have written: “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 ...

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Website Channel3 Now spread fake news that the triple murder suspect was an asylum seeker with the fake name Ali Al-Shakati, who arrived in the UK on a small boat and was on the MI6 watchlist ...

A man has been acquitted of stirring up racial hatred in a series of social media posts shared before and after the Southport killings. A court heard that Mark Heath repeatedly posted false claims ...