Online disinformation and hate speech are poisoning politics the world over, but in South Korea there have also been real-life acts of violence in a deeply polarised electorate before polls on Wednesday.Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck in January in a dramatic demonstration of the political atmosphere in the run-up to Wednesday's legislative election.Lee survived but analysts fear the supercharged political atmosphere and the weight of "incitement to hatred" online could... Read this story
