Thread by @SFFakeNews

1/ Westmonster is owned by Aaron Banks and operates like his personal fake news website. It regularly defends him against Electoral Commission investigations (without clarifying that he owns the site) & omits key facts from stories that could embarrass him. #SFFN

2/ This headline is extremely misleading. Of the four fines levied against Leave.EU, only one was reduced (from £20,000 to £16,000). This detail isn’t mentioned in the article. The article also omits to mention that Banks also owns Leave.EU. #SFFN

3/ When the Head of the Electoral Commission moved jobs during the body’s investigation of Banks, Westmonster attacked her for “standing down amid controversy.” All the evidence for “controversy” were links to other Westmonster stories. #SFFN

4/ Another article claimed Banks’ Leave.EU were “pleased” with the outcome of a court finding that they hadn’t broken a particular campaign spending law. It didn’t mention that 4 other Electoral Commission findings of spending offences were upheld. #SFFN

5/ Often Westmonster simply publishes quotes or press releases from Banks or Andy Wigmore, who works for Banks’ Leave.EU campaign, without any context or information from other sources. #SFFN

6/ Hi @squarespace, you won’t have known but your ads are helping fund Arron Banks’ personal propaganda website. Please blacklist this & the other harmful fake news sites listed here: stopfundingfakenews.com/fake-news Thanks! #SFFN

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