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'Organic but organised': How misinformation is spreading in the UK election campaign

A photo of a young boy on a hospital floor and a punch-that-wasn’t have shaped the debate ahead of tomorrow’s election.

CONCERNS HAVE BEEN raised about the impact misinformation could have on the outcome of the UK election.

There is much debate online about the veracity of claims and images being shared in recent days.

One of the central stories in this conversation involves the image of a four-year-old boy lying on the floor of a hospital in Leeds. The photo of Jack Williment-Barr has sparked outrage – but it also provoked claims it was staged.

Many people said Jack’s story was symbolic of the cuts made by the Conservative Party to the health service in recent years. At the same time, a large number of accounts spread the notion that it was misinformation shared to damage the Tories ahead of tomorrow’s election.

When Joe Pike attempted to show Prime Minister Boris Johnson the image on Monday, the Tory leader took the journalist’s phone and put it in his pocket.

Johnson initially refused to talk about it but, when pressed by Pike, took the phone out of his pocket, looked at the image and said: “It’s a terrible, terrible photo. And I apologise obviously to the families and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS.”

The journalist who broke the story, Daniel Sheridan of the Yorkshire Evening Post, said the image is genuine and noted that the hospital has apologised.

Sheridan said he verified that the image was real before the story was published. He contacted Leeds General Infirmary about the photo, which was sent to him by Jack’s mother Sarah.

Jack was rushed to the hospital by ambulance on 3 December with suspected pneumonia. Sarah claimed that her son was left in a clinical treatment room for over four hours and laid down on a pile of coats on the floor for comfort.

Dr Yvette Oade, Chief Medical Officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, confirmed that Jack’s family had received an apology after the incident.

“We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family,” Oade said in a statement.

Sheridan said Sarah had no issue with the treatment Jack was given by the doctors or nurses, but wanted to highlight that the NHS was “in crisis”.

‘I’m a former nurse’ 

Despite the hospital’s statement, rumours that the image was staged gained traction earlier this week. 

Posts with the exact same wording, purported to be written by current or former nurses, claimed that the image was staged. Some of the posts were shared thousands of times on different accounts on platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.

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Some people with large followings on social media – such as Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson (47,500 followers) and former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen (3.9 million followers) – shared the theory that the image was staged, as outlined by Professor Marc Owen Jones and others on Twitter.

Allegedly hacked 

Storyful has traced what appears to be the first Facebook post of this type to a woman in England. The post appeared on her account just after 8pm on Monday and quickly gained traction, being shared hundreds of times.

The original post said “I am a nurse myself” and mentioned a “good friend” at who worked at Leeds General Infirmary. It claimed the boy in the photo “was in fact put there by his mother who then took photos on her mobile phone and then uploaded it to media outlets”.

When contacted by Storyful, the woman claimed her account was hacked and that she didn’t share the post herself, something that has yet to be verified. The woman claims to have received death threats and said she has contacted the police about the situation.

“The woman was incredibly upset by this, she said her account was hacked, she said she has received death threats and contacted the Metropolitan Police – so there’s a human element to it.

“Her view is that her account was hacked and used in a malicious way,” Joe Galvin, Director of News at Storyful, told TheJournal.ie. He said the woman in question didn’t have a large following and the fact the post “rapidly proliferated” would suggest “a coordinated effort”.

“It grew from that and ended up being shared hundreds of times, possibly over 1,000 times. There’s no evidence of bot accounts, it looks to be predominantly Conservative supporters who were really sharing it as a method of highlighting what they feel is inaccurate.

We don’t know how coordinated this was in terms of being spread, that’s the unanswered question, but it would appear that there was some coordination in it spreading so rapidly.

Galvin noted that in the past the Conservative Party has encouraged supporters to share specific messages on Facebook and other platforms. He said the sharing of posts about the image of young post “probably organic – yes organised, but organic”.

At the time of publication, Facebook had not responded to a request for comment about the alleged hacking or death threats. 

The platform has a number of measures in place “to fight the spread of false news” and said it “building new products to curb the spread” of misinformation and “helping people make more informed decisions when they encounter false news”. 

Aggressive enforcement  

Galvin said dealing with misinformation is a huge challenge – even if a story is debunked, many people who saw posts containing false information won’t see a later clarification and the lie often continues to be shared.

“A piece of misinformation that goes viral is very hard to contain, no amount of debunking will prevent it from being shared – that’s the challenge,” he explained. 

According to the Reuters Digital News Report (Ireland) 2019, over one-third (37%) of people in Ireland said they use Facebook as a news source and 12% use Twitter for this reason. Six in 10 (61%) people questioned sad they are concerned about what is real and what is fake on the internet.

When asked about how it helps stop misinformation from spreading on its site, a Twitter spokesperson said: “We’re committed to improving the health of the public conversation on our service, particularly during elections.

“To this end, platform manipulation is strictly against the Twitter Rules. We will take aggressive enforcement action if we identify this behaviour on our service.”

The spokesperson added that Twitter has a number of measures in place to ensure a “healthy, open, and safe” online debate about the UK election.

The punch-that-wasn’t

The hospital photo wasn’t the only story making headlines this week in terms of false information being spread.

On Monday a number of political journalists including the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg and ITV’s Robert Peston tweeted that a Labour activist allegedly punched an advisor to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, citing Conservative sources.

Video footage of the incident showed that no punch was thrown and the advisor had instead walked into the outstretched hand of the man in question (about 35 seconds in).

Both Kuenssberg and Peston later corrected themselves, saying no punch was thrown, but the initial claims had already been shared thousands of times.

Many people were critical of the fact two experienced and influential journalists shared the claims without first confirming what happened.

Galvin said given how easily false information can spread, regardless of the account from which it originates, it’s “dispiriting” to see respected journalists “who should know better, parroting a party line”.

There are two sides to the disinformation coin – coordinated campaigns that are run by political parties or bad actors to get a particular message out and what I suppose you’d call the classic ‘spin’ element – journalists being hoodwinked by spin doctors or party figures; the classic ‘unnamed sources’ being quoted, that kind of stuff.

When rumours of the punch-that-wasn’t started to circulate online, Galvin said Storyful rang West Yorkshire Police who said they were not aware of any such incident taking place. He said journalists always need to be rigorous when verifying a story but that this is particularly true ahead of an election or referendum.

He said, even after the story was debunked, the claim was still being shared on social media and had a “huge impact on the online debate” in recent days.

“It’s dispiriting to see mainstream journalists making such basic errors in their reporting at such a crucial time,” Galvin added.

International influence

Concerns have been raised in recent years about potential international interference in election and referendum campaigns in recent years after US intelligence agencies accused Russia of interfering in the 2016 election which saw Donald Trump become president.

Galvin said there hasn’t been much evidence of international interference in the UK election campaign, bar Reddit accounts with links to Russia sharing alleged plans by the Conservative Party to privatise the NHS.

He said it’s “incredibly important” for social media platforms to have measures in place to stop the spread of misinformation, particularly given the impact it could have on the outcome of elections.

However, he said legislation is needed in this area as self-regulation “just doesn’t work”.

Policy decisions need to be made at a government level that will regulate these platforms, and then social media platforms can make decisions on that basis instead of on-the-fly and getting them wrong.

Galvin said the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election and the Brexit referendum were likely somewhat influenced by misinformation. He said while the spread of misinformation is also a concern in Ireland, it’s “easier to influence the outcome” of an election or referendum when it’s a simple choice of yes or no, or one person over another.

“[Ireland] should be concerned about it, but I don’t think we’re as under threat as other countries. The PR-STV system offers a little bit more protection, it’s not as easy to undermine it as with a binary yes or no choice.”

A general election is expected to be held in Ireland next year. Galvin said “certainly we should expect to see some level of disinformation at play” during the campaign, but “because we’re a small country at the periphery of Europe, we possibly aren’t seen as a major target like the US or UK” in terms of international interference.

He said the far-right and alt-right are still “fringe” movements in Ireland, but they are growing, noting: “They do have an impact on our discourse, that was writ large during the debate on Direct Provision.”

He said certain accounts with large followings can help the spread of misinformation – something platforms are trying to address but are struggling to keep on top of.

“Platforms are making decisions without a total grasp of where we are. There is a need for Irish and EU law and regulations so platforms can’t have any excuse. As long as platforms have to self-regulate, they will continue to make mistakes, it’s a big challenge.”

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    Mute Brian Dunne
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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:43 AM

    I did and i thoroughly enjoyed it. Well played patrick and all the kids and great to see it being about Christmas again.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:53 AM

    @Brian Dunne: the ‘made in China’ version perhaps, lots of future waste on show.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:53 AM

    @Thesaltyurchin: ah jeez give it a break Gretta. The clue is in the name….”TOY show”……. for first time in years there was toys/ about the toys. I really enjoyed it….Great job Patrick- all in all I’d say he knocked it clean out of the park.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:59 AM

    @Thesaltyurchin: Would you give it a rest, can you do a better job?

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    Nov 25th 2023, 12:35 PM

    @Thesaltyurchin: Miserable sod! Get a life !!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:53 PM

    @Thesaltyurchin: you defended the man who tried to murder little children, now this, something seriously wrong with you

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    Nov 25th 2023, 2:38 PM

    @Paul Gorry: says the man who is using those same kids as tools for his anti immagrant rant, never mentioning how the perpetrator is an Irish citizen, the hero of the story was a brazillian on a work visa and there was an adult hurt as well. Trying the play the heart strings there paul aren’t you contantly blaming an “Illegal migrant attacking lil children”. The perpetrator maybe mentallyvunstable but the sick one is yourself!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:32 PM

    @Paul Gorry: I never defended anyone!!… I do question your perception tho.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:35 PM

    @Ken Mc Carthy: You ‘really enjoyed it’… do your parents know you’re on here?

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:45 AM

    Hats off to Patrick on his 1st toy show. Was a fabulous success. Very entertaining with and tears shed with the 2 big surprises of family returning from Australia and the little girl brought to the show and getting her holiday to Disney world in Florida.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 12:48 PM

    @9213caroline: its not patrick that makes all that happen No more than when Ryan was doing the show which also had people coming home as a big surprize for their family & a trip to a special little child it always happened Good luck to Patrick & good luck to Ryan

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:02 PM

    @Sheila McNulty: Don’t see @9213caroline claiming it was PK that ‘makes all that happen’!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:52 AM

    Enjoyed it for the first time in a long time…its easy to see he has young children himself because he didn’t rush them around the place he let the children play

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:20 AM

    @and the hit’s just keep coming: Exactly my thoughts. Tubridy was decent but rushed the kids all night. Kielty, as you say, let the kids enjoy themselves and it wasn’t all about him.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 11:36 AM

    @David Burns: turbity was ok in later years but early shows it seemed like turbitty was off his head on marching powder. Kielty was good from the get go – he much more natural and he let the kids be themselves

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:14 AM

    Really excellent – Patrick let everyone shine

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:45 AM

    @John Kelly: That’s exactly what I thought. It wasn’t about him at all.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:37 AM

    Best toy show in a long time, Patrick Kielty made it all about the kids & let them chat away no rushing! He was a breath of fresh air

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:53 AM

    Really enjoyed it. Little one fell asleep about 11, but we kept watching until the end.
    Well done PK.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:57 AM

    It was the best toy show the kids at home were glued to it they usually fall asleep !

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:17 AM

    No.
    The Toy Show perpetuates class division by giving expensive presents to well connected Montrose posh kids while thousands of kids from the wrong Postcode languish in drug infested homeless shelters with no prospect of any future and no toys because they cannot afford them.
    Hopefully some day we’ll have an egalitarian society where all kids will be cherished equally not just those privileged ones.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:20 AM

    @Tommy Haze: as i said to you in another thread, im sure yound seamie from co clare who dreams of being a bricky has loads of connections in montrose.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:27 AM

    @Brian Dunne: I can’t believe he has tried the same answer in 2 threads about the toy show, these trolls must never have a day off. Brian, your response on both threads is perfect. I couldn’t have said it better myself!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:29 AM

    @Tommy Haze: Good man Tommy! You’re the bull! You’re the bull! You’re the bull!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:38 AM

    @Tommy Haze: The “Make everyone Poor” politicians are doing well in the polls and MSM at the moment so your Christmas wish may come true.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:14 PM

    @Tommy Haze: i would say you’re a good laugh at a party

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:28 PM

    @Tommy Haze: That is not where the toys go. Not the facts matter in a good rant!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:07 PM

    I watched it and thought it was brilliant

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    Nov 25th 2023, 2:01 PM

    First toy show in years that didnt feel fake or rushed

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:48 PM

    I thought he did an excellent job. Well done PK.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:51 AM

    People who have children do watch this consumerism TV programme.
    I Boycott RTÉ altogether.
    Israel Embassy News Channel.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:53 AM

    @Ham Hat: cool story bro

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:58 AM

    Get your orders in early, they need to mould the plastic and assemble the parts so they have enough money to eat, then it needs to be packaged and put on a ship to trawl its way to Europe and then to Ireland, just in time for Global billionaires to enjoy their private jets to fairer shores… but it’s all worth it to see their faces gleaming with delight that ‘Santy’ has delivered.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:10 AM

    @Thesaltyurchin:
    Who stole your Christmas, Mr. Grinch?

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:26 AM

    @Thesaltyurchin:
    God almighty, such utter shite…

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:30 PM

    @Thesaltyurchin: Wow, The Grinch has turned into a saltyurchin!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:33 PM

    @KTH: tell me i’m wrong?

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:34 PM

    @Regular John: The same lad who wants to burn rte down. Hmmm, okay I believe you.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:49 AM

    Don’t forget everyone to give your hard earned €160 to RTE. Good little sheep

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:58 AM

    @Simon Eales: I wish we could all be as smart as you Simon Eales

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    Nov 25th 2023, 11:10 AM

    @Simon Eales: ‘Hard earned €160’? Failed at life have you?

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    Nov 25th 2023, 11:29 AM

    @Simon Eales: I pay 13 euro a month on the post office. Better than a court appearance, but your so cool and hard the Joys a holiday camp for you

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:46 PM

    @Simon Eales: ooooh. Edgy.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 4:09 PM

    Really need to move it to an earlier time, the under 6s can’t enjoy it

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    Nov 25th 2023, 11:33 AM

    Luckily I was never brought up on the madness of RTE and I got to live a normal childhood without having talkspeak constantly tell me how to live my life. So many unhappy and hateful people in Ireland at the moment and RTE has played a huge role in this.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 11:42 AM

    @Thomas Reddy: yeah really sounds like that has worked out for you.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 11:45 AM

    @Thomas Reddy: Judging by your comment, you were clearly brought up on some kind of madness. What was it exactly?

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:25 PM

    @Vectorsector: Hey just because I’m self aware and can see how the country is messed up and how it’s people seem more intent on patting themselves on the back when they hear people talk about how great they are for helping others but are actually terrible when it comes to helping their own isn’t a slight on you at all. You were brought up in ignorance so it’d be fairly obvious that you’d grow up to be ignorant yourself.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:47 PM

    @Thomas Reddy: says the unhappy and hateful guy. Lol.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 3:56 PM

    @lWOk0fWf: So many butthurt people on here. I thought this was a news site for getting the latest news, little did I know it was just another social media platform for the forever offended.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:32 PM

    @Thomas Reddy: I love this when people say helping their own. How many people actually do.
    Volunteer and not with the local club but with the disability community or the homeless or any of the dozens of worthwhile causes that need people.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:55 PM

    @Gary Kearney: You just proved my point

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    Nov 25th 2023, 4:45 PM

    Watched it and it was brilliant I am now going to pay my TV licence

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:38 AM

    It Will Never Justify the Licence fee! Bah bloody Humbug!!!

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    Nov 25th 2023, 8:45 PM

    No I didn’t watch it but by all accounts it was excellent. Best of luck to PK always found him to be a genuinely nice guy.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 10:19 PM

    I’m not Irish but I think people over examine what is just a bit of fun. Just enjoy it for what it is without the analysis.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 12:20 PM

    Not look at the Toy Show after Gay Byrne retired lord rest him

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:05 PM

    @Paul Scully: I miss his pomposity and condescension.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:33 PM

    @Tom Dillon: He had plenty of them that is for sure.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 3:00 PM

    Thankfully all my kids have grown and fled the nest so I don’t have to watch it anymore.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 2:41 PM

    Hi Journal, you may as well start shitting the comments on all articles as even this one is not safe from the racist, hate perpetrating, gurriers like Paul Gorry and Peter Murray.

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    Nov 25th 2023, 2:49 PM

    @Joe x: Sorry, that’s meant to be “shutting”

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    Nov 25th 2023, 1:43 PM

    Watch rte? Are you mad?! im a celebrity was on

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    Nov 26th 2023, 5:24 AM

    Don’t watch anything RTE. Full of overpaid people and corruption.

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    Nov 26th 2023, 9:10 AM

    Get rid of RTE please.

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    Install the app to use these features.
    Mute peter costello
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    Nov 25th 2023, 9:20 PM

    Boring! Tried but couldn’t watch! Trying too hard!

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    Install the app to use these features.
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    Nov 26th 2023, 8:22 AM

    Super

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