Certainly fits with my anecdotal experience.
https://twitter.com/M_B_Petersen/status/1378688299674521600
Some of the biggest founts of UK politics fake news on social media have been hyper-partisan sites like the Canary, Another Angry Voice or Westmonster, whose creators and readers are evidently motivated by intense hatred of the out-party.
Seems very plausible to me that a lot of people sharing that kind of content do it because they provide an attractive good not so easily available from mainstream sources - attention grabbing ultra-negative stories about the outgroup
And yes hyper partisan stories focused on denigrating political out groups can and do appear in mainstream media too. As Petersen et al note Dems in US share fake news less because they can find that kind of material in mainstream outlets. Same may well be true for right in U.K.
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