The Post Office's reputation has also been seriously damaged because of the Horizon IT scandal, which saw hundreds of postmasters and mistress wrongly convicted when faulty software made it look like they were stealing money.

Chairman and owner Levy is the most powerful person at Spurs and, rightly or wrongly, it is him rather than manager Ange Postecoglou who is the target of anger.

Centralised fact checking by platforms risks "stifling valuable reporting on controversial content", she told the BBC, and also leads users to wrongly believe that all the posts they are reading are the "vetted truth".

But campaign groups have warned that it will invade claimants' right to financial privacy, and could lead to legitimate claimants being wrongly investigated.

On the campaign trail he repeatedly lied about what happened, downplayed the severity of the attack, and suggested those charged were being wrongly held as political prisoners.