Electronic Media: False Information - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 11:18 am on 12 September 2024.

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Photo of Baroness Hussein-Ece Baroness Hussein-Ece Liberal Democrat 11:18, 12 September 2024

My Lords, part of the challenge of addressing the proliferation of misinformation is the large volume of accounts created solely to spread information that is not verifiable and is fake. Often, these accounts are bots, as we call them. Have the Government considered introducing mandatory verification of identity on social media, so that platforms know the identity of all their users without removing their anonymity?