Select Committee · Home Affairs Committee

Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Status: Closed Opened: 29 Jun 2016 Closed: 3 May 2017 1 report

The Home Affairs Committee has strongly criticised social media companies for failing to take down and take sufficiently seriously illegal content – saying they are "shamefully far" from taking sufficient action to tackle hate and dangerous content on their sites. The Home Affairs Committee carried out an inquiry into hate crime and its consequences. This …

Reports

1 report
Title HC No. Published Items Response
14th Report - Hate crime: abuse, hate and extremism online HC 609 1 May 2017 0

Oral evidence sessions

6 sessions
Date Witnesses
21 Mar 2017 Session View ↗
14 Mar 2017 Session View ↗
21 Feb 2017 Session View ↗
10 Jan 2017 Session View ↗
13 Dec 2016 Session View ↗
15 Nov 2016 Session View ↗

Correspondence

1 letter
DateDirectionTitle
17 Mar 2017 To cttee Letter from the Chair to Peter Barron, Vice-President, Communications and Publi…