Jon Snow feuds with Piers Morgan over fake news

The Channel 4 newsreader and the Good Morning Britain host were having a hard time agreeing what was true and what was fake on Twitter

Published: Tuesday, 7 February 2017 at 12:00 pm

Piers Morgan versus Jon Snow: it’s on! Snow (the Channel 4 news presenter, not the resurrected warrior of Westeros) has fired back at Piers Morgan, who called the newsreader an “expert” at fake news.

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Why? Well, Morgan’s comment came as Snow prepared to front Channel 4's 'Fake News Week', which aims to provide "an insight into the post-truth world".

Cue a startling appropriate Twitter exchange that underlines the dangers of said "post-truth world".

Morgan, ever the diplomat, took issue with Snow's involvement after the C4 News man accidentally reported Morgan had been suspended from his now-cancelled CNN show in 2011.

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The pair's war of words are over for now, but their twitter spat gives us a brilliant excuse to have another look at Jon Snow in his full-moustachioed Fake News Week trailer glory...

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