Question follow-through · 109647
Democracy and Disinformation: Social Media
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report by Resilience and Reconstruction entitled Disinformation, UK Democracy, and At
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- Answering body
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Tabled
- 29 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Feb 2026
- Answer
- 9 Feb 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether she has made an assessment of the potential implications for her policies of the report by Resilience and Reconstruction entitled Disinformation, UK Democracy, and At
2 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Feb 2026
Answer published
I refer the Hon Member to the answer provided on 21 January to Question 105450. As concerns the algorithms of social media platforms, the Online Safety Act gives Ofcom the power to request information on their design, including as this relates to allegati...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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