Parliamentary report set to savage ‘duplicitous’ Facebook
by Carole Cadwalladr from Technology | The Guardian on (#49A4G)
Westminster will also urge investigation into foreign meddling in UK elections
Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself and must be subject to sweeping new legislation, a parliamentary report will announce on Monday.
It will also call on the government to launch an independent investigation into foreign interference in British elections since 2014. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee will publish what is expected to be a landmark report into fake news and disinformation at midnight on Sunday night.
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