GETTY Donald Trump may have secured his election victory because of a British far-right campaigner

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James Dowson, also a former member of the British National Party, created the Patriot News Agency last year. The agency reportedly published countless articles accusing Hillary Clinton of having links with “Satanism, paedophilia, murder and other conspiracies”.

We were FORCED to become incredibly good at alternative media in a way the left simply can’t grasp or handle James Dowson, Britain First founder

Michael Flynn, Trump's nominee for national security adviser tweeted an article from one of the websites. Linked to a number of other propaganda websites, the 52-year-old far-right activist and former Priest said he created the websites because he was fed up of the liberal bias in mainstream media.

Twitter General Flynn, a nominee for Trump's cabinet promoted fake news but the tweet was later deleted

He told the New York Times: “Simple truth is that after 40 years of the right having no voice because the media was owned by the enemy, we were FORCED to become incredibly good at alternative media in a way the left simply can’t grasp or handle. “Bottom line is: BREXIT, TRUMP and much more to follow.”

GETTY Mark Zuckerberg denied claims that Facebook promoted fake news websites

It comes weeks after Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, denied all suggestions that fake news travelling on their network could have influenced the election. But last week, Facebook announced that it would begin flagging fake news stories with the help of users and outside fact-checkers.

GETTY Hillary Clinton strongly condemned the use of fake news websites

After joining the BNP Dowson founded Britain First, an anti-immigration group that sees the Islamic religion as a threat to British values. One of the reported aims of Dowson’s site was to “spread devastating anti-Clinton, pro-Trump memes and sound bites into sections of the population too disillusioned with politics to have taken any notice of conventional campaigning".

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