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Select committee: Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee

4th Special Report - Misinformation in the COVID-19 Infodemic: Government Response to Committee’s Second Report of Session 2019–21

Published 14 October 2020

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At a glance

The government's response

This document responds to Second Report - Misinformation in the COVID-19 Infodemic.

This is the government's response, published 14 October 2020.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government welcomes the report and states that it is "firmly committed to making the UK the safest place to be online", with most detailed policy positions deferred to the Online Harms full Government Response due "later this year".

  • On legislation, the government is "working at pace" to publish the full consultation response later this year, to be "shortly followed by legislation, which will be ready early next year".
  • On the regulator, the government says it "was minded to appoint Ofcom" and will confirm the identity of the regulator in the Full Government Response due later this year.
  • On media literacy, the government "aims to publish the media literacy strategy in Spring 2021", later than the Committee's request for publication by the time of the response.
  • On the Counter Disinformation Unit, the government states that the Unit "does not provide a fact checking function, and is therefore not duplicative of fact checking organisations".

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