has more than 113,000 likes - shares their posts.

"They get traffic, I get content," he said.

Peak popularity

The post reached a far bigger audience in pages and groups with names like "British Voice", "WTO Brexit Now" and "We Support Jeremy Corbyn", according to research by misinformation expert Maarten Schenk of Trendolizer .

These groups came from across the political spectrum, including communities supporting Labour, the SNP, the Brexit Party, UKIP, and the Conservatives.

While it kept spreading on Facebook, the post took a month to reach its peak. It was one of the most popular politics posts on the social network on 4 November.

It has now been posted by at least 248 different pages and groups, had close to 50,000 interactions (shares, comments and likes), and the story has now beenpolitics story going viral. But it's not the only one - or even the first one related to the 2019 election.

One of the most viral election videos so far was produced by Joe.co.uk, a left-leaning site aimed at young men.

"Monster Crash" is a joke video with a serious message - it implies that Boris Johnson and the Conservative cabinet member Jacob Rees-Mogg stand to profit by engineering a financial crash brought on by a no-deal Brexit.

Image copyright joe.co.uk Image caption This video has 4m views on Facebook and Twitter

The video indirectly references a story which went viral in anti-Brexit circles, again at the beginning of October. Again there were multiple versions of the story, but at the heart of all of them were allegations that financial speculators who