Twitter says UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's party misled public with 'factcheck' account GE2019
LONDON - Twitter accused Britain’s ruling Conservative Party on Wednesday of misleading the public during a televised election debate, but Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said voters did not care about the cut and thrust of social media.
With its avatar changed to a white tick against a purple background instead of the party’s traditional blue branding, the account, which is followed by 76,000 users, issued tweets supporting Johnson and criticizing Corbyn. Raab said the aim of the Conservative campaign was to rebut what he described as “nonsense” put out by Labour. “It matters that we have an instant rebuttal,” he said.
“Twitter is committed to facilitating healthy debate throughout the UK general election,” a Twitter spokeswoman said.
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