Letters: Politicians must be held to account over zombie facts
John Swinney apologised after he was reported to the UK Statistics Authority for sharing an inaccurate graphic on social media DAVID Leask’s commentary highlighting the zombie fact of Scotland being the only country to become poorer after the discovery of gas and oil ("Scotland struck oil but got poorer. Really? Why some nationalists buy the myth", The Herald, July 23) is indicative of the mistruths that are constantly shared on social media. This week we saw John Swinney, an experienced politician, posting a meme on the infectious rate of Covid which had no reference to the source of ...
Source: heraldscotland.com