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PA's politics and social team will select the best election stories and updates from across the web as well as posts and statuses from Facebook's users.
10.57pm: Winding up for tonight (unlike Cameron on his nocturnal odyssey, this blog needs its sleep) here are some of the election stories from Wednesday's front pages.
We've put together some of the false election stories that were widely shared by search engines or on social media - alongside some events that did actually happen.
The study found that over the last three months of the election campaign, 20 top-performing false election stories from hoax sites and hyper-partisan blogs generated 8,711,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook, whereas the 20 best-performing election stories from 19 major news websites generated a total of 7,367,000 shares, reactions and comments.
Just to put some numbers behind that assertion, research by BuzzFeed journalists discovered that "top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 19 major news outlets combined".
We began the beta trial before the UK general election in May because we knew our UK homepage would be dominated by election stories, not all of which would be of interest to an international audience.
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