Submitted on Thursday 28th March 2019
Rejected on Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Investigate dis/misinformation use during BREXIT, before the UK leaves the EU.
Democracy requires an informed public and representatives.
-"Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report" (www.Parliament.uk 2019)
"We further recommend that the Government launches an independent investigation into past elections—including the UK election of 2017, the UK Referendum of 2016..."
- 250+ senior academics criticize deliberate campaign misinformation in EU Referendum (an open letter in the Telegraph 14 June 2016)
-UKIP's appeal has been dismissed and ICO tries to continue its investigation into use of data analytics. (2018)
-The Electoral Commission concluded Vote Leave broke electoral law. (2018)
-UK Statistics Authority "The continued use of a gross figure in contexts that imply it is a net figure is misleading and undermines trust in official statistics." (2016)
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