As we are approaching a UK general election, it is worth remembering that fake news around election time is far from new.

Four days before the 1924 UK election - almost exactly a century ago - the Daily Mail published the Zinoviev letter that helped to bring down the incumbent Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.

According to Wikipedia:

The letter purported to be a directive from Grigory Zinoviev, the head of the Communist International (Comintern) in Moscow, to the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), ordering it to engage in seditious activities. It stated that the normalisation of British-Soviet relations under a Labour Party government would radicalise the British working class and put the CPGB in a favourable position to pursue a Bolshevik-style revolution. It further suggested that these effects would extend throughout the British Empire.

This example of Russian interference in our elections turned out to be fake - much like the more recent Steele dossier, used in the USA to smear Trump.

Russiagate has been around for a very long time.