The UK parliament's DCMS committee is running an enquiry into disinformation online.
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.
A report by the UK's DCMS committee, which has been running an enquiry into online disinformation for the best part of this year, made similar recommendations in its preliminary report this summer.
The company took a second look into Kremlin Brexit disinformation after being criticized by a UK parliamentary committee which is running an enquiry into fake news, and whose chair, Damian Collins, has taken a special interest in Brexit — including called out Facebook and Twitter for their lack of cooperation with his enquiry.
A spokesman told us it's making the change to "enhance driver and passenger safety" — though in truth the company has faced rising political pressure on safety issues and working conditions for many months now, including facing a grilling in October from a parliamentary committee that's running an enquiry into the gig economy.
Back in October Uber told UK MPs running an enquiry into gig economy working conditions that it was working on a mechanism to cap the amount of time a driver could be logged into the app over a rolling 24 hour period.
To get a rough quantification of this decline in interest, we ran a research enquiry through the JSTOR repository, using the keywords: "seasonal" and "marriage" (as a criterion of research, we only require that these two words appear together in the text, so we are certainly overestimating the number of articles on the topic).
While a UK parliamentary committee is also running a wider enquiry aiming to articulate the impact of fake news.
PlusNet said it was running an internal enquiry to ensure "that this type of incident will not happen again" and had alerted the Information Commissioner's Office.
In a major escalation of France's long-running enquiry into Google's tax affairs, magistrates revealed on Tuesday that the software giant is suspected of evading taxes by failing to declare the full extent of its activities in the country.
We could equally challenge the Inspectors' competence to run such an enquiry.
