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November 20, 2019 11:10 am GMT

Twitter warns UK political party over misleading 'factcheck' rebrand

Twitter has issued a warning to a UK political party, after a rebrand of their press account as a fact-checking service attempted to mislead the public.

The Conservative party has been accused of misleading people by changing their official press Twitter profile into a type of fact-checker during a televised leadership debate.

During a head-to-head between Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnston and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn broadcast by ITV on Tuesday night, the Twitter account of the Conservative press office was rebranded as "factcheckUK" with a new logo that showed no indication of its political associations. Read more...

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