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One of the scariest outcomes of this transition, Postman wrote, is that television essentially turns all news into disinformation.
When Damian Collins and his colleagues on the Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee were in the US taking evidence for their inquiry into disinformation and fake news, they were struck by the priorities of the FBI officials they met.
The UK parliament's DCMS committee is running an enquiry into disinformation online.
This boils down to a list of some very, very broad-brush "best practice principles" (such as "follow the money"; develop "solutions to increase transparency"; and "encourage research into disinformation"… ).
The DCMS committee has been conducting a wider investigation into disinformation and data use in political campaigns and it plans to publish an interim report on it later this month.
Facebook's oversight — or rather lack of it — where user data is concerned has been a major focus for the committee, as its enquiry into disinformation and data misuse has unfolded and scaled over the course of this year, ballooning in scope and visibility since the Cambridge Analytica story blew up into a global scandal this April.
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Both committees say they will be issuing their final reports into online disinformation by the end of December.
The DCMS committee published its final report into online disinformation last month, setting out a laundry list of recommendations for cleaning up political campaigning in the digital era.
The UK's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, which has been running an enquiry into online disinformation for the best part of this year, revealed the latest Facebook snub yesterday.
The UK's Prime Minister waded into the disinformation debate herself last month by publicly accusing the Russian government of seeking to "weaponize information" by planting fake stories and photoshopped images to try to sow discord in the West.
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