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25 March 2017

The man who created the fake Tube sign explains why he did it

"We need to consider the fact that fake news isn't always fake news at the source," says John Moore.

By Amelia Tait

“I wrote that at 8 o’clock on the evening and before midday the next day it had been read out in the Houses of Parliament.”

John Moore, a 44-year-old doctor from Windsor, is describing the whirlwind process by which his social media response to Wednesday’s Westminster attack became national news.

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