Disinformation and ‘fake news’ - Committees

Reports, special reports and government responses

7th Special Report - Disinformation and ‘fake news’: Final Report: Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report of Session 2017–19

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Published 9 May 2019

HC 2184

Special Report

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

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Published 18 February 2019

HC 1791

Report

6th Special Report - Mr Kramer's failure to comply with the Committee's Order of the 19 November 2018

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Published 21 November 2018

Report

Correspondence

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Letter from Richard Allan, Facebook, to the Chair, re Mainstream Network, 4 March 2019

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Published 5 March 2019

Correspondence

Letter from Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, to the Chair, re AIQ oral evidence, 20 September 2018

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Published 22 January 2019

Correspondence

Correspondence with Richard Cook, Constitutional Research Council, 5 and 26 November 2018

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Published 22 January 2019

Correspondence

Oral evidence transcripts

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27 November 2018

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Witnesses Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, and Steve Wood, Deputy Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office; Leopoldo Moreau, Chair, Freedom of Expression Commission, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina, Alessandro Molon, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil, Bob Zimmer, Chair, and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Charlie Angus, Vice-Chairs, Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, House of Commons, Canada, Catherine Morin-Desailly, Chair, Standing Committee on Culture, Education and Media, French Senate, Eamon Ryan, member, Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Parliament of Ireland, Pritam Singh, Edwin Tong and Sun Xueling, members, Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, Parliament of Singapore; Ashkan Soltani, tech expertat 4.00pm

Published 29 November 2018

Oral Evidence

27 November 2018

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Witnesses Richard Allan, Vice President of Policy Solutions, Facebook; Leopoldo Moreau, Chair, Freedom of Expression Commission, Chamber of Deputies, Argentina, Nele Lijnen, member, Committee on Infrastructure, Communications and Public Enterprises, Parliament of Belgium, Alessandro Molon, Member of the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil, Bob Zimmer, Chair, and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith and Charlie Angus, Vice-Chairs, Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, House of Commons, Canada, Catherine Morin-Desailly, Chair, Standing Committee on Culture, Education and Media, French Senate, Hildegarde Naughton, Chair, and Eamon Ryan, member, Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Parliament of Ireland, Dr Inese Lībiņa-Egnere, Deputy Speaker, Parliament of Latvia, Pritam Singh, Edwin Tong and Sun Xueling, members, Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, Parliament of Singapore

Published 28 November 2018

Oral Evidence

6 November 2018

Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Witnesses Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner, and James Dipple-Johnstone, Deputy Commissioner, Information Commissioner's Office; Claire Bassett, Chief Executive, Bob Posner, Director of Political Finance and Regulation and Legal Counsel, and Louise Edwards, Head of Regulations, Electoral Commission (at 11.15am); Guy Parker, Chief Executive, Advertising Standards Authority (at 12 noon).