General Election 2019. Millions of leaflets will be printed, many of which will include dodgy bar charts. PR agencies will design flashy posters. People will be confused by those fake handwriting fonts. Hopes will be raised and hearts will be broken.
Already candidates are being forced to defend stupid or offensive things they tweeted before they were politicians. Parties are flooding Facebook with videos, GIFs and memes. And there are signs that a new collection of para-political groups, akin to US super-PACs, are spending dark money spreading lies, smears and distortions across social media.
That much we know. We’re planning to find out a lot more – but we need your help.
