[Commlist] Fake News Inquiry Report pubiished

Thought I would share the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and 
Sport Fake News Inquiry final report which is just published:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmcumeds/1791/1791.pdf

And as the final report endorses Briant's recommendations that the 
private influence industry must no longer go unregulated and on how this 
might be done, I just wanted to share her full original report on this 
in case anyone wishes to read the fuller proposals:

·Briant, E L (2018) ‘Building a stronger and more secure democracy in a 
digital age 
<http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/fake-news/written/88559.pdf>’ 
A Response to Recent Interim Reports and Proposals, published by 
Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Inquiry into Fake 
News: UK

This September 2018 policy report was Briant's response to both the 
recent UK Interim Report of the Fake News Inquiry, and the proposals 
offered by Sen. Warner and the Senate Intelligence Committee. It replied 
to inadequacies in both reports and the proposals offered to date for 
the US and UK, highlights the important areas Briant considered to have 
not been fully addressed, arguing for what Briant saw as vital 
recommendations and proposals for the US and UK.

Today's Fake News Inquiry Final report restates the Briant report's 
recommendations and then concludes the following:

'The industry needs cleaning up. As the SCL/Cambridge Analytica scandal 
shows, the sort of bad practices indulged in abroad or for foreign 
clients, risk making their way into UK politics. Currently the strategic 
communications industry is largely self-regulated. The UK Government 
should consider new regulations that curb bad behaviour in this industry.'

And:

'There needs to be transparency in these strategic communications 
companies, with a public record of all campaigns that they work on, both 
at home and abroad. They need to be held accountable for breaking laws 
during campaigns anywhere in the world, or working for financially 
non-transparent campaigns. We recommend that the Government addresses 
this issue, when it responds to its consultation, ‘Protecting the 
Debate: Intimidating, Influence and Information’'


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