{"id":64003,"date":"2018-02-16T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/uk-fake-news-committee-says-patience-is-running-out-7\/"},"modified":"2018-02-16T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T13:54:14","slug":"uk-fake-news-committee-says-patience-is-running-out-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/uk-fake-news-committee-says-patience-is-running-out-7\/","title":{"rendered":"UK \u2018fake news\u2019 committee says patience is running out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 British lawmakers did not like what they heard when they traveled to Washington to quiz technology executives on \u201cfake news\u201d this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patience of policymakers is running out,\u201d the chairman of the digital, culture, media and sport committee, Damian Collins, told a press conference following a day of hearings with U.S. executives from tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Google.<\/p>\n<p>Collins said firms needed to have a \u201csense of compulsory obligation\u201d to force them to deal with the \u201csocial consequences\u201d of their businesses, as their investment in dealing with \u201cbad content\u201d was \u201cstill very small.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Questioned about the responsibility of social media companies to remove disinformation posted on their platforms, Nick Pickles, Twitter\u2019s U.K. public policy director, was adamant they were \u201cnot the arbiters of truth.\u201d Journalists, citizens and activists corrected information on Twitter, he said.<\/p>\n<p>But Labour MP Julie Elliott, another member of the committee who spoke at the close-of-day press conference, said Twitter \u201cdidn\u2019t get it,\u201d adding she felt firms thought \u201cthey had no responsibility for what was on their platform, which I\u2019m afraid I don\u2019t agree with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cross-party group of MPs flew more than 3,000 miles as part of a U.K. parliamentary inquiry into the dissemination of untrue stories online. They are also probing the extent of Russian influence in Britain\u2019s 2016 EU referendum.<\/p>\n<p>Following repeated requests for information after academic studies suggested Russia-linked bots had been posting about the Brexit vote, Pickles told MPs on Thursday Twitter had found a \u201csmall\u201d number of active Russia-linked accounts during the referendum campaign as part of a \u201cbroader investigation\u201d into activity on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter found 49 accounts from the Kremlin-linked Internet Research Agency had posted 942 tweets, which were cumulatively retweeted 461 times and liked 637 times, Pickles said.<\/p>\n<p>But Collins remained skeptical. His \u201cinstinct\u201d would be that the number of Russian-linked Twitter accounts is \u201cfar higher than 49,\u201d he told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube\u2019s global head of public policy, Juniper Downs, told the MPs its own investigation had found \u201cno evidence\u201d of interference in the Brexit vote, while Facebook said its probe would not be complete until the end of February.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Collins, who has previously raised the prospect of sanctions for inaction, said while he thinks technology firms understand they have to be seen to be acting over \u201cbad content,\u201d they were not investing enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-fake-news-committee-says-patience-is-running-out\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p> [contf] [contfnew]         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRMd3Tz2gX9xSa6CJyaOj2dokBVcrdaT4yY3R3RI7YmL18vCLZZ\"\/> <\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/&gt;Politico&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;\/h5&gt;_&lt;\/p&gt;[contfnewc]_[contfnewc]_&lt;\/body&gt;&lt;\/html&gt;\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 British lawmakers did not like what they heard ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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