UK mulls social media regulation after days of far-right riots
A further 70 per cent of respondents said social media companies were not strongly regulated enough, and 71 per cent said they did not do enough to counter misinformation while the riots were ongoing.
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas Symonds said on Friday the government would revisit the law’s framework.
“There are obviously aspects of the Online Safety Act that haven’t come into effect yet. We stand ready to make changes if necessary,” he said on Sky News.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan told the Guardian on Thursday that the Online Safety Act needed to be amended in the wake of the riots.
“What the government should do very quickly is check if it is fit for purpose. I think it’s not fit for purpose,” he told the newspaper.
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Anti-racism protests sweep UK after far-right riots against immigration
Disorder spread across Britain last week, after widely-shared online posts wrongly identified the suspected killer of three young girls in a July 29 knife attack as a Muslim migrant.