United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 24829
Social Media: Fraud
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20 January 2025
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28 January 2025 · Answer
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28 January 2025
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make it a criminal offence to create fake online media accounts for public bodies and organisations where the communication of official and public inform
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20 January 2025
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make it a criminal offence to create fake online media accounts for public bodies and organisations where the communication of official and public inform
Source: Commons
28 January 2025
Answer
Under the Online Safety Act, all services in scope must tackle illegal content and activity which enables fraud, including activity through fake and anonymous accounts. The illegal harms duties will come into force in Spring 2025.More broadly, government ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2025-01-20/24829
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1756791
- uk · wq-1756791 · source updated 28 January 2025