Coronavirus: Disinformation
(asked on 20th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment she has made of potential sources of covid-19 disinformation.
This question was answered on 27th February 2023
DSIT’s Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) stood up in March 2020 to address COVID-19-related disinformation and has been responding to acute disinformation risks ever since. Mis and disinformation can come from a range of sources, and the CDU takes an actor agnostic approach, working closely with social media platforms to support the introduction of systems and processes that promote authoritative sources of information.