Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Closed Opened 15 Sep 2017 Closed 16 Jul 2019

Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)

Final Report: Disinformation and 'fake news' (HC 1791 17/19), published 18 February 2019. Government Response to Final Report (HC 2184 17/19), published 9 May 2019. Interim Report: Disinformation and ‘fake news’ (HC 363 17/19), published 29 July 2018. Government Response to Interim Report (HC 1630 17/19), published 23 October 2018. This inquiry continues the former Committee's work on fake news .

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 15 September 2017.

The committee has published 2 reports, most recently 8th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report on 18 February 2019.

The government's response to each report

8th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report

No government response is linked to this report.

5th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Interim Report

No government response is linked to this report.

Reports

8th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report18 February 2019
5th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Interim Report29 July 2018

All reports

Evidence

21 oral evidence sessionsLatest 27 November 2018

All evidence

Recent activity

Letter from Richard Allan, Facebook, to the Chair, re Mainstream Network, 4 March 20195 March 2019, Correspondence
8th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report18 February 2019, Report published
Letter from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, to the Chair, re AIQ oral evidence, 20 September 201822 January 2019, Correspondence

Recommendations and conclusions 0 shown

No recommendations or conclusions are indexed for this inquiry yet.

Reports

2 reports

8th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Final Report

HC No.: HC 1791
Published: 18 Feb 2019
Items: 0
Government response: No government response is linked to this report.

5th Report - Disinformation and 'fake news': Interim Report

HC No.: HC 363
Published: 29 Jul 2018
Items: 0
Government response: No government response is linked to this report.

Oral evidence sessions

21 sessions

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Date	Session and witnesses	Source
27 Nov 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
6 Nov 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
31 Oct 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
12 Jun 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
6 Jun 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
22 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
16 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
15 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
2 May 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
26 Apr 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
24 Apr 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
17 Apr 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
27 Mar 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
21 Mar 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
14 Mar 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
6 Mar 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
27 Feb 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
8 Feb 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
23 Jan 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
16 Jan 2018	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗
19 Dec 2017	Oral evidence session No witnesses recorded	View ↗

Correspondence

30 letters

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Published	Direction	Letter
5 Mar 2019	To committee	Letter from Richard Allan, Facebook, to the Chair, re Mainstream Network, 4 March 2019
22 Jan 2019	To committee	Letter from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, to the Chair, re AIQ oral evidence, 20 September 2018
22 Jan 2019	Not recorded	Correspondence with Richard Cook, Constitutional Research Council, 5 and 26 November 2018
25 Nov 2018	Not recorded	Correspondence between the Chair and Richard Allen, Facebook, 25 November 2018
19 Nov 2018	To committee	Letter from the Grand Committee to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, re oral evidence, 19 November 2018
14 Nov 2018	To committee	Letter from Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, to the Chair, re oral evidence, 12 November 2018
7 Nov 2018	To committee	Letter from Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, to the Chair, re oral evidence, 2 November 2018
7 Nov 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, re oral evidence, 7 November 2018
31 Oct 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, re oral evidence, 31 October 2018
29 Jun 2018	To committee	Letter from Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, to the Chair, 8 June 2018
22 May 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, 21 May 2018
16 May 2018	To committee	Annex to letter from Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, to the Chair, dated 14 May: Letter from Gareth Lambe, Facebook, to Louise Edwards, Electoral Commission, 14 May 2018
15 May 2018	To committee	Letter from Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, to the Chair, 14 May 2018
1 May 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, 1 May 2018
28 Mar 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, 28 March 2018
28 Mar 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Alexander Nix, 28 March 2018
27 Mar 2018	To committee	Letter from Rebecca Stimson, Facebook, to the Chair, 26 March 2018
22 Mar 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Alexander Nix, 22 March 2018
20 Mar 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, 20 March 2018
28 Feb 2018	To committee	Letter from Simon Milner, Facebook, to the Chair, 28 February 2018
25 Jan 2018	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Jack Dorsey, Twitter, 25 January 2018
25 Jan 2018	To committee	Letter from Nick Pickles, Twitter, to the Chair, 19 January 2018
17 Jan 2018	To committee	Letter from Simon Milner, Facebook, to the Chair, 17 January 2018
14 Dec 2017	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Jack Dorsey, Twitter, 14 December 2017
14 Dec 2017	To committee	Letter from Nick Pickles, Twitter, to the Chair, 13 December 2017
28 Nov 2017	To committee	Letter from Nick Pickles, Twitter, to the Chair, 24 November 2017
28 Nov 2017	To committee	Letter from Simon Milner, Facebook, to the Chair, 21 November 2017
3 Nov 2017	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Jack Dorsey, Twitter, re Russian-linked accounts
24 Oct 2017	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, re Russian-linked accounts
19 Oct 2017	To committee	Letter from the Chair to Dara Nasr, Twitter, 19 October 2017