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HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you, both. You mentioned that search is a concern, especially because it is currently out of scope of the Bill in terms of this issue. Another issue is that when people do…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Thank you for joining us this afternoon. As a constituency MP, I am sure I am not alone in saying that a vast amount of my casework comes from members of my community writing to…26 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Quite briefly, because I know we are short on time, exactly how many human moderators do you have working to take down disinformation and harmful illegal content on your…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)The vast majority of people are third party. They are not employed directly by Meta to moderate content, so how many of the UK organisations you use have been quality assured to…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q On that technology, we have been told that you are not doing enough to remove harmful and illegal content in minority languages. This is a massive gap. In London alone, more…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, both, for adding context to that. If I can bring you back to what is not being done and why we need to legislate, Richard, I come back to you. You mentioned some of…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q So the responsibility is on the user, rather than the platform, to take action against abuse? Richard Earley: No, the responsibility is absolutely shared by those of us who…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Before I bring in Becky and Katie to answer that, I just want to bring you back to something you said about social media and your platforms reflecting society like a mirror.…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Finally, which UK organisations that you use have quality assured any of their moderator training materials? Richard Earley: I am sorry, could you repeat the question?24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you to our witnesses for joining us this afternoon. Quite bluntly, I will get into it, because what is frustrating for us, as Parliamentarians, and for our constituents,…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Okay. Thank you, Chair.24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q So you are not predominantly aimed at children? If you are an adult service, why is it that people aged 13 or above can access your platform? Katy Minshall: We find that, in…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q On that point, one of the concerns that has been raised by other stakeholders is about the categorisation of platforms—for example, category 1 and category 2B have different…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q A final question from me. We heard concerns from children’s charities and the Children’s Commissioner that the Bill does not account for breadcrumbing—the cross-platform…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you both for joining us, and for waiting until the end of a very long day. We appreciate it. There is a wide exemption in the Bill for the media and for journalistic…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q You are creating a two-tier internet, effectively, between the normal user and those who are exempt, which large swathes of people will be because it is so ambiguous. One of the…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. Just one final question for Twitter. A query we raised with the Children’s Commissioner and the NSPCC is about pornography and children accessing it. A person needs…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q Thank you. Given the media carve-out and the journalism exemption in the Bill, how could you detect state actors that are quoting disinformation, or even misinformation? Katy…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (Second sitting)Q I suppose, yes. Under the current media carve-out, how do you see platforms being able to detect state actors that are quoting misinformation or perpetuating disinformation on…24 May 2022HANSARDOnline Safety Bill (First sitting)Q That brings me to my next question. Because what would be classed as content of democratic importance is so ambiguous, would your platforms even be able to detect it? Katy…24 May 2022