Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to the findings of Oxford University Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Research Project into voter manipulation, what steps he is taking to ensure that elections are not influenced by botnets spreading fake news.

The National Cyber Security Centre is actively working with local authorities and will continue to work with Cabinet Office to implement successful delivery of secure elections. Our manifesto included various commitments regarding the media, including the need to protect the reliability and objectivity of information essential to our democracy.