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22 June 2017

Give it up Daily Mail, you can’t pretend you’re nothing to do with Mail Online

The newspaper's insistence on claiming it has nothing to do with its website borders on the ridiculous. 

By Jasper jackson

Across the top of the Daily Mail’s front page on Thursday a banner screamed: “Fake news, the fascist Left and the REAL purveyors of hatred”.

No this wasn’t another attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party, it was a full page screed against the Guardian and its criticism of the Mail’s rhetoric on Islam, which a number of commentators have suggested contributes to Islamophobia.

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