Alex Tait

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A campaign group is calling for the fact-checking of political advertising to a statutory requirement, which describes it as a "fake news and disinformation in General elections".

The Coalition for the Reform of Political advertising, says at least 31 campaigns from the entire spectrum of The Party , indecent, dishonest or untrue.

The non-partisan body consists of advertising professionals.

It says That the next government will have to create a new regulatory authority to monitor The Matter .

The organization also suggests That 87% of voters think it's a law must compel to, political ad-makers only truth can make proper claims.

The figure is based on a survey of 1,691 adults, conducted by YouGov on The Coalition 's behalf.

'big problem'

The Coalition says That the largely unregulated world of choice advertising bears little resemblance to the fundamental principles of retail advertising, namely, That the advertisements should be "legal, decent, honest and truthful".

Political office controversy

breakdown of the 31 featured ads

source: coalition for the Reform in Political advertising

Since the beginning of the election campaign, a team of 10 volunteers from The Campaign group, sifted through Social Media ad libraries, party schedules, and physical party leaflets.

examples of the materials, the thought of The Volunteers , took were problematic, And Then cross the claims with The Work of the fact-checking organizations references.

It then sorts a list of 31 different items judged to violate The Code of commercial marketing.

package included:

it was highlighted That contain both paid and unpaid ads, mostly online, but some Offline - should not be considered as a comprehensive, i.e. there may also be other cases were probably not discovered.

The Coalition of the examples of Twitter and Facebook as well as printed materials

Ads has to be in the UK are regulated by the Advertising Standards Authority. Its rules prohibit the use of misleading information and require advertising to have driving "documentary evidence" to support their claims.

is the subject of the political ads, outside of the ASA. And the electoral law is That "it is not necessary to claims in political campaigns, to be truthful or factually correct," according to The House of Commons library.

coalition for the Reform of the Political advertising co-founders Alex Tait says highlighted his report That it was "a very big problem".

This is The First parliamentary election since several of the tech giant gave the Public Access to databases with lists of political advertising on their platforms.

and they all share this data, although there is a delay between when a campaign begins, and if it is documented.

a minimum of £2m has spent on Facebook and Instagram over The Last 30 Days , and an advertising blitz is expected to struggle over The Last 48 Hours of election.

Disputed

have, do not contain misleading claims, but the issue was also raised in a separate study, by the non-profit organization on a First draft.

accused The Conservatives, an overestimation of labour costs saw the expenses of the plans in your ads

It is not in any paid Facebook advertising by the three main UK-wide parties lead over The First four days in December:

Labour supporters are more likely to share unpaid-for electoral contributions, as the supporters of the other parties.

And in most of the interacts-with the contributions of The Campaign , Jeremy Corbyn was ' s tweet with the.

The Liberal Democrats in the criticism, for their use of the unlabeled graphs in This post by Jeremy Corbyn of the account has been retweeted almost 17,000 of changes

the concerns are not limited to, online content.

In all, a expert has the distribution of political campaign is characterized developed materials, to see how the local Newspapers.

Dr Claire Hardaker says although this is a proven technology, it has a damaging effect On Democracy .

"Local papers are regarded as honest, impartial to talk to me specifically," explains the University of Lancaster, academic research, the deceptive and manipulative language.

"you are an objective voice, you are interested in. If Political Parties lend this voice to interpret the people, what they say, in a different way That you as a credible. "

UPDATE: This piece was published on 10 December 2019 and has been updated to a revision of The First draft of the message of his research results.

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Source of news: bbc.com