It was a joy to read the reasoned piece about immigration by Maya Goodfellow (Opinion, 13 August). I live in a village on the edge of the Clacton constituency and have been appalled by the increase in overt anti-immigrant sentiment, especially since Nigel Farage announced his candidacy for the seat. The issue speaks more broadly to the problem of misinformation, which seems to have been pushed aside as an issue to be tackled.
One of the main changes in recent years is the huge volume of misinformation in discussions on social media platforms such as Facebook and Nextdoor. I worry that factual information to counter this is considerably less abundant on such platforms, which so many people turn to for news and information.
