Thread by @FullFact

2022 was a damaging year for standards in public debate.

The latest Full Fact Report is out today, and sets out how politicians, the media and others can improve trust and safeguard UK democracy ahead of the next election.

📕Read the report 👉 fullfact.org/about/policy/r…

In 2022:

🔴As many as 50 MPs, including two Prime Ministers, Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Ministers, failed to correct false, unevidenced or misleading claims, despite our repeated calls for them to do so

🔴The statistics regulator had to write to the UK Government at least 10 times to challenge it on its use of statistics or other data

🔴A false claim about employment was repeated at least 9 times in Parliament by a sitting prime minister and has yet to be officially corrected, despite challenges by @StatsRegulation, @UKStatsAuth and @CommonsLiaison

🔴The government’s #OnlineSafetyBill rowed back on promises to address harmful misinformation and disinformation, and now fails to protect freedom of expression

This is the latest in a series of annual reports made possible thanks to funding from @NuffieldFound.

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The Full Fact Report 2023 makes 12 recommendations, including that political parties end bullshit manifestos, and a new law to prevent deceptive campaign practices.

Find out more and how you can take action: fullfact.org/about/policy/r…