Guido—and likely John Woodcock himself—was shocked to read in the hard-left propaganda site Byline Times yesterday that Woodcock (now Lord Walney), the government’s anti-extremism adviser, had supposedly been sacked. What’s less surprising is that Byline Times journalists Josiah Mortimer and Adam Bienkov had written totally incorrect information. In reality, Lord Walney remains the government’s extremism adviser and is, in fact, giving evidence today to the Police and Crime Committee of the London Assembly. Byline published complete fake news, then…

This wasn’t a case of a story being ‘too good to check.’ Byline Times actually received a response from Number 10, the background line confirming that Woodcock was still in post. The highly marginal site chose to ignore this critical detail and ran with their false claim anyway. Now, after being forced into a humiliating U-turn, they’ve had to correct the article’s headline to state that Lord Walney “Remains in Post.” Though The Times now reports that his position is “under review” following his warnings about far-left protests. Just another example of the left-wing media pushing their narrative before verifying the facts…