"The Online Safety Act (OSA) cannot keep the UK public safe as it was not designed to tackle misinformation, MPs say today, in a wide-ranging report that urges the government to go further to regulate social media companies and disincentivise the viral spread of false content."
The above statement should be of concern to everyone. We all know that there is a lot of hope based on the Internet Safety Act to help ensure children do not become targets online or get drawn into illegal acts. Concerns about misinformation has been around for many years but in the recent past the volume of the sources of minisformation have grown out of all proporation.
We know that some misinformation is used to attract children to join in conversations with people online and in some cases those conversations turn out to poisenous. Political misinformation is causing havoc in a number of countries and its potential impact on the outcomes of elections and even the survival of democracy.
Read the full story here. A link to the full Committee Report is on the same page.
