Is the Conservative Party deliberately distributing fake news in attack ads on Facebook?

Tambini, Damian, Anstead, Nick ORCID: 0000-0002-1090-5271 and Magalhães, João Carlos (2017) Is the Conservative Party deliberately distributing fake news in attack ads on Facebook? Media Policy Blog (07 Jun 2017). Website.

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The Conservative Party made clear that they would run an anti-Corbyn campaign, attempting to contrast the alleged weaknesses of the leader of the Labour Party with Theresa May’s supposedly superior leadership. An analysis of Tories’ Facebook advertising by LSE researchers Damian Tambini, Nick Anstead and João Carlos Magalhães suggests that this negative campaign included specific instances of demonstrably false or misleading information.

Item Type:	Online resource (Website)
Official URL:	http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/mediapolicyproject/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Authors
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2017 14:11
Last Modified:	01 Oct 2024 03:10
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81832

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