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UIN 128078

Social Media: Disinformation

answeredUnited Kingdom· UK Parliament· EN

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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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  1. 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

  2. 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...

    Source: Written answer

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