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By Maeve Walsh, Associate at Carnegie UK Trust As we wait for the final response to the consultation Government’s Online Harms White Paper – a wait that has lasted for 18 months since the publication of the White Paper itself in...
“I have flagged a small number of fake news items (around 5G towers) on social media platforms and no action has been taken.” – Female, 30-39, South West England Covid-19 misinformation has been widely recognised as a serious challenge to...
The Black Lives Matter movement continues to organise protests around the world to try and end racial discrimination against the black community, often reaching people online through social media. However, social media has also been where many of the hate...
Much has been made of the return of the Premier League this week, and of the return of sports-based betting. With the majority of sporting events having been cancelled over the past few months and their physical venues closed, the...
‘! Get the facts about mail-in ballots’. This week Twitter added a fact-check label to one of Donald Trump’s tweets, which incorrectly claimed that plans for mail-in ballots would lead to voter fraud – on the grounds that they were...
The public conversation around the source of Covid-19 has been laced with worrying undertones. Almost as soon as the global scale of the pandemic became apparent, conspiracies linking the virus to 5G lit up the internet. Phone masts were burned,...
As online conversations become the norm, it’s crucial to be aware of how false information can spread through online spaces, whether through good or malicious intentions. In a health crisis, it’s more important than ever that we are consuming and...
On 12th February, the Government issued their initial response to the consultation on the Online Harms White Paper which examined how to regulate tech companies to reduce ‘Online Harms’. The Government is seeking to establish a legal Duty of Care...
On International Women’s Day, we have a lot to celebrate regarding the participation of women in public life. At home, our last election saw a record number of women members of Parliament elected; and women in public life in the...
