United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 128078
Social Media: Disinformation
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10 December 2020
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15 December 2020 · Answer
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15 December 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure social media companies tackle the spread of misinformation on the covid-19 vaccine on their platforms.
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10 December 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to ensure social media companies tackle the spread of misinformation on the covid-19 vaccine on their platforms.
Source: Commons
15 December 2020
Answer
The Government takes the issue of misinformation and disinformation very seriously. That is why we stood up the Counter Disinformation Unit up on 5 March to bring together cross-Government monitoring and analysis capabilities.We are working closely with s...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-12-10/128078
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1260187
- uk · wq-1260187 · source updated 15 December 2020