United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 48419
Disinformation: Coronavirus
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18 May 2020
Last action
27 May 2020 · Answer
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27 May 2020
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding from the public purse the Government has allocated to preventing the spread of misinformation on covid-19 since 1 March 2020.
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18 May 2020
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, how much funding from the public purse the Government has allocated to preventing the spread of misinformation on covid-19 since 1 March 2020.
Source: Commons
27 May 2020
Answer
Government takes the issue of disinformation very seriously. The DCMS-led Cross-Whitehall Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) was stood up on 5 March 2020, bringing together cross-government monitoring and analysis capabilities from DCMS, the Home Office, t...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2020-05-18/48419
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1196618
- uk · wq-1196618 · source updated 27 May 2020