Full Fact said it has written to the Conservative Party asking for the account to be renamed, adding: 'Voters deserve better.'
But that same evening, as the two leaders battled it out on the BBC,HQ faced accusations of misleading the public by rebranding its official press account on X as "Tax Check UK".
The account rebrand has attracted criticism by fact checking website Full Fact, which in a statement on X said: "We've written to @Conservatives to ask them to remove the 'Tax Check UK' rebrand of @CCHQPress. This misrepresents posts on the account as an impartial fact checking service. Voters deserve better."
This isn't the first time the Conservatives have been accused of misleading the public via social media, with the party facing a rebuke from the Electoral Commission in 2019 for"History repeating, first as tragedy then as farce. No wonder people don’t trust politicians," investigative journalist Peter Geoghegan posted.
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