Democracy still exposed to misinformation under new bill
The Representation of the People Bill recognises the threat to misinformation but doesn’t confront it. Our briefing set out how to strengthen electoral protections for the digital age.
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Recent fact checks
We fact checked claims from the three main parties contesting the by-election in Gorton and Denton, as well as false claims circulating on social media.
Our round up looks at some of the misleading or questionable claims we saw, as well as how our fact checks were used by some of the campaigns themselves.
Conservative shadow chancellor Laura Trott MP claimed on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the UK has “the highest rate of youth unemployment in Europe”.
This isn’t correct. While the youth unemployment rate in the UK is higher than the EU average, several other European countries have a higher rate.
An image being shared on social media supposedly shows a halal-certified milk chocolate “Eid egg” with the Cadbury logo.
This image is fake. Mondelēz International, the company that owns Cadbury, confirmed this picture does not show a real Cadbury product.
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