Digitally Excluded Children at Greater Risk of Fake News, Researchers Warn.  A lack of digital skills is leaving children “more open to the risks of disinformation, fake news and other online harms”, according to a report by former children’s commissioner Anne Longfield’s think-tank the Centre for Young Lives and eight universities in the North of England.  Longfield says recent racist and Islamophobic rioting “have shown the consequences of disinformation and its impact on the real world”. This violence was sparked by fake news around the identity of a teenage boy charged with the murder of three girls, who were stabbed to death in Southport last month.