UK Conservatives under fire for Twitter deception

Britain's Conservative Party was accused Wednesday of trying to deceive voters by changing the name of its press office Twitter account to factcheckUKduring a televised election debate,raising concerns that political parties' online trickery is undermining democracy.

Rebranding its account to resemble a neutral fact-checker, complete with a big check mark, the party posted tweets supporting Prime Minister Boris Johnson during his debate with opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. It later reverted to the name CCHQ Press and restored the party logo to its profile.

Organizations that combat political misinformation cried foul.

It was misleading and it was inappropriate, Will Moy, chief executive of the London-based fact-checking website Full Fact, told The Associated Press. It's not what we can see a serious political party doing.''