Why I am seeking to stamp out online echo chambers of hate | Lucy Powell
by Lucy Powell from Technology | The Guardian on (#3YFD0)
Closed forums on Facebook allow hateful views to spread unchallenged among terrifyingly large groups. My bill would change that
You may wonder what could bring Nicky Morgan, Anna Soubry, David Lammy, Jacob Rees-Mogg and other senior MPs from across parliament together at the moment. Yet they are all sponsoring a bill I'm proposing that will tackle online hate, fake news and radicalisation. It's because, day-in day-out, whatever side of an argument we are on, we see the pervasive impact of abuse and hate online - and increasingly offline, too.
Social media has given extremists a new tool with which to recruit and radicalise. It is something we are frighteningly unequipped to deal with.
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