MP accountability and misinformation

Trust thought for today - is about the importance of trustworthy information. I'd like to highlight the work of an organisation I should have known about already Full Fact holding UK parliamentarians to account.

I was rather astonished to find how easy it is for MP's to constantly get away with misleading facts and the inability to properly police this. (See letter in the pic.). They give timely and useful fact check for lots of different debates, including Sunak and Truss last night.

"Bad information ruins lives. We’re a team of independent fact checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm it does.

False or misleading claims affect us all. As fact checkers we’ve seen first hand how bad information promotes hate, damages people’s health, and hurts democracy. We deserve better. 

Full Fact fights for the right information to reach the people who need it most, whether that’s individuals making decisions about their health or who to vote for; or politicians debating the future of our country.

Our principles are simple. Anyone making serious claims in public debate—fact checkers included—should be prepared to:
* Get their facts right
* Back up what they say with evidence
* Correct their mistakes."

Worth a look and I just signed their petition to help to to make politicians more accountable for the misleading information they put out, repeatedly.

https://fullfact.org