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Oral evidence transcripts

Disinformation and ‘fake news’

Total results 22 (page 1 of 2)
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
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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
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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).
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31 October 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Sharon White, Chief Executive, and Lord Burns, Chair, Ofcom.
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6 June 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Alexander Nix.
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12 June 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Arron Banks, and Andy Wigmore.
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22 May 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Tristan Harris, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Center for Humane Technology (via video-link).
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16 May 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Jeff Silvester, Chief Operating Officer, AggregateIQ.
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15 May 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Claire Bassett, Chief Executive, Bob Posner, Director of Political Finance and Regulation and Legal Counsel, and Louise Edwards, Head of Regulations, Electoral Commission.
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2 May 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Chris Vickery, Director, Cyber Risk Research, UpGuard.
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26 April 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technical Officer, Facebook.
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24 April 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Dr Aleksandr Kogan, Cambridge University researcher.
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17 April 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Brittany Kaiser, former Director of Program Development, Cambridge Analytica.
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27 March 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Paul-Olivier Dehaye and Christopher Wylie, social media experts
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21 March 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Sandy Parakilas, former Facebook operations manager (via video-link).
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14 March 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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6 March 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Bill Browder, Founder and Chief Executive, Hermitage Capital Management, and Edward Lucas, Senior Vice President, Center for European Policy Analysis; Elizabeth Denham, Information Commissioner (at 11.30am).
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27 February 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Alexander Nix, Chief Executive, Cambridge Analytica.
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8 February 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Richard Gingras, Vice President of News, Google, and Juniper Downs, Global Head of Public Policy, YouTube; Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Simon Milner, Policy Director, UK, Middle East and Africa, Facebook (at 10.00am); Carlos Monje, Director, Public Policy and Philanthropy, U.S. and Canada, and Nick Pickles, Head of Public Policy and Philanthropy, UK, Twitter (at 11.00am); David Carroll, Associate Professor of Media Design, The New School, Amy Mitchell, Director of Journalism Research, Pew Research Center, Frank Sesno, Director, Professor of Media and Public Affairs and International Affairs, George Washington University, and Claire Wardle, Research Fellow, Shorenstein Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy (at 1.00pm); David Chavern, President and Chief Executive, New Media Alliance, Major Garrett, Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News, Tony Maddox, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, CNN International, and Kinsey Wilson, Special Advisor to the President and Chief Executive, New York Times (at 2.00pm).
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23 January 2018
Inquiry Disinformation and ‘fake news’
Witnesses Professor Vian Bakir, Bangor University, Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol, and Dr Caroline Tagg, the Open University; Matt Breen, Commercial Director, Media Chain (part of the Social Chain Group), Adam Hildreth, Chief Executive, Crisp, and Dr. Charles Kriel, Corsham Institute (at 11.30am).
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Total results 22 (page 1 of 2)