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Fake news, conspiracies and rumours: Meet the man sifting fact from fiction

By Andrew Billen
The Times·
17 mins to read

Lyric Jain, a 25-year-old from Staffordshire, is determined to take on the shadowy forces around the world spreading lies and disinformation. He even has foreign governments asking for his help.

In a mansion in the Staffordshire Potteries once owned by a scourge of the Napoleonic navy lives a scourge of fake news. On Valentine's Day, 1797, Admiral John Jervis defeated a fleet of French warships outnumbering him two to one. Nearly 225 years on, Lyric Jain has just returned to

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