Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to counter Iranian government disinformation in the UK.

Misinformation and disinformation can come from a range of sources, but we know that certain states routinely use disinformation as a foreign policy tool. The UK – along with our G7 and NATO partners, is working hard to protect our democracies against disinformation. DCMS holds overall HM Government policy responsibility for counter-disinformation and is the convening department for the Cross-Whitehall Counter Disinformation Unit, bringing together cross-government monitoring and analysis capabilities.

DCMS also closely with social media platforms to help them identify and take action to remove disinformation, in line with their revised terms and conditions, and to promote authoritative sources of information. Home Office are supporting DCMS in their response to countering disinformation, including through engagement with platforms.