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The #spycops campaign goes mainstream
A woman photographs a #spycops poster in the display window of a Lush store in London

IT’S not true across the board that all publicity is good publicity. But in the case of the undercover policing scandal — or #spycops as it’s known on Twitter, it probably is.

The deception of female activists into relationships with police spies is one of the greatest human rights outrages of British history.

Yet very few are even aware this happened. The saga has attracted scandalously little coverage from the media — with the exceptions of the Morning Star and the Guardian.

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