CatmanV2
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Bit late to the party, but the BBC now reporting on the lies pushed by political parties.
It concentrates on Facebook ads, so still a long way to go - we need more articles like this getting out there - we really need them to be about the toxic red tops though, who spread lies far and wide.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50726500
Most interestingly:
- for the Conservatives, it said that 88% of the party's most widely promoted ads either featured claims which had been flagged by independent fact-checking organisations as not correct or not entirely correct.
- for Labour, it said that it could not find any misleading claims in ads run over the period.
Coverage is of four days in December. All paid ads
To put a slightly different spin:
For Tories:
Those sums are significantly higher than others' analysis of Labour's plans . Doesn't actually mean they are not correct. Doesn't mean they are correct mind.
For Labour:
However, it noted that the party's supporters were more likely to share unpaid-for electioneering posts than those of its rivals (the analysis was only for paid for ads)
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