"[2] According to BuzzFeed, The Skwawkbox has published a "regular run of stories that appear to have been briefed by insiders close to the top of the Corbyn project", suggesting that certain senior individuals in the Labour Party use it to get their messages out.

[7] In June 2017, The Skwawkbox published an article suggesting that the real death toll from the Grenfell Tower fire was being covered up, based on claims from "multiple sources" that the government had placed a D-Notice on coverage.

IPSO concluded that the MailOnline characterisations of the D-Notice story as "fake news" and of allegations against Theresa May in the article as "false" were not misleading and the complaint was not upheld.

A previous version of this article said that Foojit made money from the NHS “by selling its mailing system to the Levenshulme Health Clinic in Manchester”.

In addition the article has been amended to say that the Skwawkbox blog posts published by Mr Walker reported on claims made by other sources.

[15] On 19 December 2019, following a six-day trial at the Royal Courts of Justice, Turley won the libel claim against Unite and Walker and was awarded damages of £75,000.