Thread by @docrussjackson

"Alexa, which British political @Twitter accounts have a much higher proportion of Fake Followers than other similarly sized accounts measured by followers?"

Elon Musk - who wants to buy @Twitter & who already has the highest Fake Follower score I've ever seen - should write a book called 'How To Buy Friends & Influence People'.

And let's #NeverForget that according to The Tory-supporting Telegraph, the @Conservatives 'hired an army of tweeters to take on Jeremy Corbyn's supporters on social media'.

In the UK & USA the biggest spenders nearly always win general elections.

https://twitter.com/MichaelRosenYes/status/1099237536126418944?s=20&t=ER7M875NbB2E5XlToe2WfA

The @Conservatives spent more than £16 MILLION on #GE2019, including £6m on unsolicited material, £1.6m on a polling firm set up by Lynton Crosby, & £0.5m on Twitter graphics & videos, including rebranding the Tory main Twitter account as #FactCheckUK during the leaders’ debate.

In the 2017 general election, 75 parties and 18 campaign groups reported spending more than £41.6 million between them.

The Conservatives spent most at £18.6 million.
Labour came in at £11 million and the Liberal Democrats at £6.8 million.

Non-party campaigners that pushed anti-Labour attack ads to millions of voters ahead of the 2019 general election spent more than £700,000 without declaring any individual donation, an investigation by @openDemocracy found.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

The Tory party raised £37.4m in “large” donations in the run-up to #GE2019 - over three times more than Labour.

In the six weeks before polling day, they raised more in donations than all other parties combined during the same pre-poll period in 2017.

ft.com/content/eb4c25…

Unusually, the @LibDems are said to have spent more than @UKLabour on #GE2019.