I'm a PhD researcher and associate lecturer at Lancaster University specialising in corpus linguistic approaches to media deception/manipulation (fake news). My primary research interest is using corpus approaches to investigate deception and manipulation in online spaces. Situating myself within forensic linguistics, my research focuses on how people manipulate others linguistically and also how, on the internet, ideas spread from their inception until they cease to exist. The title of my PhD thesis is 'The Dissemination of Fake News on Social Media' and uses corpus approaches to focus on how people share fake news to legitimise their views and how people use fake news to convince others to align with their own ideologies.