Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that digital and social media platforms apply equitable (a) terms, (b) conditions and (c) policies to (i) general, (ii) local, (iii) specialist and (iv) individual news reporters.

The Online Safety Bill will create a new legal requirement on the biggest social media companies to put in place safeguards for journalistic content shared on their platforms. They will need to put in place policies to ensure that the importance of journalistic content is taken into account when making moderation decisions and apply these consistently and transparently. Platforms will be required to ensure protections are applied to all content produced for the purposes of journalism, irrespective of the individual or organisation that generated the content.