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YOUNG IN OLD FAKE NEWS SCANDAL

YOUNG IN OLD FAKE NEWS SCANDAL

Spectator editor caught offside in false claims about Chelsea FC

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Apr 16, 2021
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THEY say start as you mean to go on. And so it was with Toby Young, associate editor of The Spectator magazine and super-spreader of fake news about coronavirus.

The 57-year-old lockdown sceptic began his national media career with a major piece of fake journalism about Chelsea Football Club, The Upsetter can reveal.

In June 1985, Young, then a 21-year-o…

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