A study during the Dec 19 election found that 88% of Conservative campaign ads were untruthful. I still think about this exchange, days before the election. The normalising of Conservative lies. The false equivalence. The suggestion that all political parties were as bad.
(sorry, that clip was from @bbcchq
and the report is here: https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-06/88-of-conservative-ads-on-facebook-misleading although the fig on misleading Lab ads was later amended upwards, to 7%)
and the report is here: https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-06/88-of-conservative-ads-on-facebook-misleading although the fig on misleading Lab ads was later amended upwards, to 7%)
I posted a messier clip at the time https://twitter.com/rachshabi/status/1204448166105559040?s=20
I honestly wince at this clip: I think I sound screechy and hectoring. But underneath it was just this sense of panic and confusion at reality being reordered, in real time, live on TV