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Smear: cartels and conspiracies in Oldham

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:53:42
Publish Date: 2021-09-02 12:04:23
Description:

A year ago, journalist Joshi Herrmann got an anonymous tip. It sent him to a website claiming to have evidence of serious corruption, grooming gangs and “cartels” operating in Oldham. From there, Joshi stumbled across a remarkable story about how online conspiracies are poisoning local politics, spilling out from paranoid corners of the internet all the way to the ballot box. And at the heart of it all is on one rather angry man, who calls himself “the recusant”...

 

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