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Written Question
Disinformation
Wednesday 17th April 2024

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, further to the Online Safety Act 2023, what additional steps she plans to take to help tackle online disinformation and misinformation.

Answered by Saqib Bhatti - Shadow Minister (Science, Innovation and Technology)

The Online Safety Act will be our key tool in combatting the most egregious forms of online mis- and disinformation but Government action doesn’t stop there.

In addition, we are educating and empowering users through our work on media literacy, responding to information threats to our democracy via the Defending Democracy Taskforce, and analysing attempts to artificially manipulate the online information environment through the work of the National Security Online Information Team.

I regularly meet with major platforms to discuss these issues and would be very happy to update him on recent progress that has been made.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Friday 15th March 2024

Asked by: John Penrose (Conservative - Weston-super-Mare)

Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, when she plans to respond to the correspondence of (a) 13 December 2023 and (b) 5 February 2024 from the Rt hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare on behalf of a constituent on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill.

Answered by Julia Lopez - Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport

The Department provided a response to the Member on 8 March, though apologises profusely for the delay experienced on this occasion.