Conservative Party Facebook advert altered BBC headline

By 2019-09-13Science & Tech

The Conservative Party has said it is reviewing its Facebook advertising after it was accused of misrepresenting a BBC News story.

An advert featured the BBC logo with a headline saying “£14 billion pound cash boost for schools”.

But a BBC story linked in the advert said the figure was £7.1bn.

Fact-checking charity Full Fact said political parties should not “misrepresent the work of independent journalists in this way”.

A Conservative Party spokesman said: “It was not our intention to misrepresent by using this headline copy with the news link ... Read even more

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