It was great to have Labour MP @justinmadders.bsky.social join our panel at our recent House of Commons event “Preventing Disinformation and Misinformation in Campaigning.” He made some key points about the opportunity we have with the Elections Bill to modernise the rules for our democracy.

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"EU plans hub to tackle disinformation threat from Russia and others. Move follows ‘escalating hybrid attacks’ by Russia and other foreign powers spreading fake articles across social media" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Lord Puttnam has given an excellent interview in @bylinetimes.bsky.social following our event in the House of Commons last week "preventing disinformation and misinformation in campaigning". You can read it here. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/mistrust-i...

Hear from @greenparty.org.uks @elliechowns.bsky.social making some excellent points about what we need to see in the upcoming Elections Bill. She is speaking after our recent cross party event in the House of Commons "preventing disinformation and misinformation in campaigning".

We discussed at our HoC event this week widening the Online Safety Act to include harms to society and democracy. While we think about that... "Meta just made $51,242,000,000 (at an operating margin of 40%) in 92 days. This works out at about $557m EVERY day." Source: @drwilding.bsky.social

Ahead of the Elections Bill we've held a key meeting at the House of Commons on "preventing disinformation and misinformation in campaigning". Thanks for excellent contributions from David Puttnam, @elliechowns.bsky.social, Justin Madders, @iancolinlucas.bsky.social, @georgefreemanmp.bsky.social.

Really enjoyed attending this fantastic event by @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social around regulation of political advertising. And yes, that is a #LibDemBarChart in 2nd pic! Some big challenges but if parties/candidates aren’t trustworthy in campaign, we’ll never rebuild trust in politics in general.

📰 How can we tackle disinformation and misinformation in campaigning? 🚀 We'll shortly be kicking off our joint event in Parliament this evening with @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social

Packed room for extremely timely event on how to stop misinformation and disinformation in political advertising. Big shout out to @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social and @appgfairelections.bsky.social for putting this event on tonight.

“The truth matters. We need to challenge this now because otherwise it's only going to get worse.” Justin Madders on the need to go beyond a code of conduct for political campaigning in order to address disinformation @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social

Thanks for putting on this event with us @appgfairelections.bsky.social

Did someone say political advertising doesn't matter? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Tory MP reports deepfake defection video to police… This sort of political disinformation has the potential to seriously distort, disrupt and corrupt our democracy," he added. “ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The ASA’s role in Local Election Advertising - Paid advertising: We will consider complaints about paid local election advertising.” No it isn’t April 1st. This is how they do it in New Zealand where elections ads have been regulated for decades. 👏👏 asa.co.nz/2025/04/28/s...

@matthew-wright.bsky.social Vital...

Thanks Anne and for your support.

This BBC undercover investigation into how a Russian disinformation operation to influence elections in Moldova was set up is worth a watch. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

@pimlicat.bsky.social apologies BlueSky is asking for age verification to dm you with face recognition! I couldn't track down your email if you could you email me @ alex(dot)tait(at)reformpoliticaladvertising.org I'd be grateful and I can send on to you from there if that is ok?

@michelap.bsky.social hello Michela, we'd like to send you an invite to an upcoming event. If you follow us we'll forward on the invite. Alex

@pimlicat.bsky.social we'd like to invite you an event. If you follow us I'll dm you details.

Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social on becoming the new leader of @greenparty.org.uk. Thanks for the Green Party’s ongoing support for electoral advertising regulation also.

Transparency is a powerful way to undermine political grooming

🧵A win for political and transparency in Europe – and Reform Political Advertising. When we launched Reform Political Advertising, we proposed the idea of an independent, public repository for political ads.

Politician heal thyself. Some irony in the Lib Dems calling for increased ad regulation when political ads have none and frequently lie. And some of the worst offenders? You guessed it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

. @libdems.org.uk call for urgent stricter regulation of YouTube ads. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... How about supporting regulating fact based claims in election ads as recommended by the House of Lords. @maxwilkinson.bsky.social you can find out more here. reformpoliticaladvertising.org

. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @katharineviner.bsky.social although there is some hope 👉 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/hope-for-ele...

We’ve prominent coverage in John Johnston’s excellent Politico Influence newsletter this week. We are pointing out how it is essential that the government’s efforts to counter disinformation include misleading factual claims in election ads (if that isn’t self evident enough). @politico.eu

Thanks to John Johnston for our mention in the excellent Influence newsletter this week on why the government’s updating of election rules is a good step forward … but we’ve an “oven ready” suggestion for their proposed campaign code. @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social @politico.eu

Well done Alex et al 👍 Keep up the good work and the pressure! 👍

I just emailed my MP @delivering4crawley.bsky.social asking him to support this 👍

🧵There could be hope for electoral ad content regulation in the Elections Bill after all. We'd certainly like to discuss it with @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social. Following our initial response to the government’s Restoring Trust in Our Democracy strategy, we’ve had further discussions about it

🧵 The government published a significant policy paper today "Restoring trust in our democracy: Our strategy for modern and secure elections". It includes some welcome proposals - including one that we've been campaigning for - but it doesn't go far enough. cc @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social

Thank you. There are lots of good ideas in here but @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social we'd love to speak to you about a significant omission electoral advertising regulation. reformpoliticaladvertising.org

If only we held politicians to account as effectively as we do soft drink makers...

Thanks Rick - I'm sure the @adstandards.bsky.social and @electoralcommission.org.uk would agree!

🙃It is nice we have an advertising regulator that can ban a CBD drink over claims it makes you calm. However, for the most important ads of all ... election ads that influence votes there are no rules at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What would happen if we made a complaint about the ad we wonder ... to the ASA?

🤔 Is this a misleading ad by the Advertising Standards Authority? It doesn't regulate the most important ads of all ... election ads that influence your vote? It states on its website its "ambition is to make every UK ad a responsible ad" ... but we're not there yet. @adstandards.bsky.social

Just putting this out there ... (Content from Linkedin).

RPA co-founder @benedictpringle.bsky.social: “One year on: what the 2024 election campaigns say about today's political landscape “ www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/one-...

“Britain’s biggest fact-checking company goes into administration …Logically, which worked with the government to counter disinformation during the Covid pandemic, had recently lost contracts with social media giants” www.thetimes.com/uk/media/art...

“Sultana, the Coventry South MP stripped of the Labour whip last year for backing a move to scrap the two-child benefit cap, said the new party would be formed with other independent MPs and activists, aiming to challenge a "broken" Westminster system” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What could go wrong? “X announced … that it would allow LLMs to write community notes to clarify or correct contentious posts, before users approve them for publication. The notes have previously been written by humans.” @damiancollins.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

On Brexit anniversary week a spam email with an update on how Alexander Nix (ex Cambridge Analytica) is putting joy into the world lands in our inbox. There are still no content rules for election ads …we are campaigning to change that. reformpoliticaladvertising.org @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

That's correct. We are campaigning to change that.

Thanks for your support Roger.

9 years since Brexit. We could never have an ad as misleading as this one again could we? We are bound to as there are still no rules for election ads. Support our campaign for electoral ad regulation for factual claims (as recommended by the HoL). reformpoliticaladvertising.org/donate/