Media Disguise

"Thousands of Covid generation under-fives excluded from schools in England: Nearly half of children arrive in some areas unable to talk and still not potty-trained as lockdown legacy take its toll, data show."

But the numbers actually don't support that. Given that these children were newborns during lockdown, the subheading is especially absurd. Most certainly, their mother would have brought them home.

Although this kind of headline is not clickbait or fake news, it is nonetheless false and irritating, and it has caused people to argue over lockdowns on social media rather than the true issues raised by the article, which are cuts to social services. Although it encourages discussion, few people are actually reading it when they click on it.

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