Note this is in the UK, where there are fewer legal protections for free speech. But, yes, I think it's a huge political mistake to tie these concepts in this

Note this is in the UK, where there are fewer legal protections for free speech. But, yes, I think it's a huge political mistake to tie these concepts in this way (or even to use the term "fake news" at all, at this point). Regardless of the motives or actual content of the workshops, imagine how someone on the right will (not entirely unjustifiably) view a headline like this.