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The Epistemic Security Network is a new network hosted by Demos. It provides a home for collective efforts to protect democracy by cleaning up and fortifying our information supply chains. As part of the network we share a weekly newsletter, Epistemic Security...
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“Streamlining the planning process is a bit like trying to streamline democracy…” This line from Labour backbench MP Paul Truswell, spoken in a late night Commons debate almost 20 years ago, has a certain ring doesn’t it? As someone interested...
‘If it’s illegal offline, it should be illegal online.’ This is the rallying cry around which the debate on digital regulation in the UK has coalesced. It and its converse (‘if it’s legal offline, it should be legal online’) are...
Drawing on recent research published by Demos, Ben Glover and Andrew Phillips discuss how attitudes to levelling up differ across the country and what this means for the government’s flagship agenda. The morning after the last general election, Boris Johnson...
“Rest assured, this Bill will end anonymous abuse, because it will end abuse, full stop.” We will ‘turn the tide on racist, misogynistic and anti-semitic abuse.’ The promises of a succession of Secretaries of State about the Online Safety Bill set...
By Charles Seaford With COP26 about to commence, the Government is on a mission to try and build consensus internationally in order to tackle the climate emergency globally. But the Government also has another task on its hands – it ...
Over the last few years, solutions to the problem of online abuse have been proposed and attempted – from pleading with platforms to do the bare minimum of enforcing their own terms and conditions, to entirely new regulatory frameworks being...
The Ministry for Local Government is no longer. The recently renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has sent many commentators scrambling, asking: is this a cosmetic change, a nominal change in lieu of real change? Or does this...
In regulating online spaces, if we treat the problems of harmful content as separate from the problems of harmful systems, we risk not solving either. Addressing disinformation and online violence against women requires a holistic regulatory response. “It should be...
Gendered disinformation is a form of identity-based disinformation that threatens human rights worldwide. It undermines the digital and political rights, as well as the safety and security, of its targets. Its effects are far-reaching: gendered disinformation is used to justify...
‘The safest place in the world to go online’. This is the ambition for the UK, set out by the Government in the 2019 Online Harms White Paper, and echoed over the next two years as the proposals evolved into...
