United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 2284
Social Media: Regulation
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17 May 2021
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21 May 2021 · Answer
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21 May 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring social media companies to report on the algorithms they use to monitor online hate speech on their platforms and any bias
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17 May 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of requiring social media companies to report on the algorithms they use to monitor online hate speech on their platforms and any bias
Source: Commons
21 May 2021
Answer
Hate speech is completely unacceptable in an open and tolerant society. Our new laws will mean social media companies must keep promises to their users about their standards and stamp out this sort of abuse. Companies will need to take steps to mitigate t...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-05-17/2284
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1315152
- uk · wq-1315152 · source updated 21 May 2021