Social Media: Russia

(asked on 2nd March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they are monitoring how (1) Google, (2) Facebook, and (3) Twitter, have responded to reported demands by the government of Russia to withhold reports of Russia's armed actions in Ukraine.


Answered by
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay Portrait
Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
This question was answered on 16th March 2022

As the Secretary of State set out in her statement on 3 March, we have been engaging regularly with the major platforms, which have taken a number of positive steps in response to the situation.

The Counter Disinformation Unit in DCMS continues to work closely with platforms to flag specific pieces of disinformation and have them removed where they violate a platform's terms of service. Regular engagement with platforms is ongoing, and we are continuing to speak to them about safeguarding features and ways of better protecting civilians who are using their services. We will continue to work closely with them to encourage further action to support the Ukrainian people.

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