{"id":100901,"date":"2017-03-15T11:23:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=100901"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T11:23:43","slug":"social-networks-face-increased-legislation-following-bbc-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/social-networks-face-increased-legislation-following-bbc-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networks face increased legislation following BBC investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>MPs are set to consider if social networks require greater legislation to force them to improve the way they handle complaints. The parliamentary enquiry has been called after a BBC investigation highlighted issues around Facebook\u2019s failure to remove sexualised images of children from its network.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Damian Collins, chair of the culture, media and sport committee, described Facebook\u2019s failure to remove reported images as \u201cdisturbing\u201d and suggested that the way the company handled complaints was inadequate.<\/p>\n<p>The committee will decide if social networks should be held responsible for content (including illegal images, fake news, etc.) published on their sites which has been reported as inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Oxford Media Convention, Collins said: \u201cShould there be an offence to act on a referral?\u201d That would create a massive incentive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins, who previously worked in the advertising industry, said: \u201cAdvertisers should say we won\u2019t spend the money with you unless you use it the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He contined: \u201cIf you place a press ad, the editor is responsible for the content. The newspaper accepts responsibility for the content it prints. Why shouldn\u2019t these rules apply to social media as well? Facebook\u00a0is the principal paid-for tool for political communication.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Collins argued that it is in the interests of social networks to get their house in order and said: \u201cIf their sites are full of fake news, bullying, people will go to other sites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Challenging the perception that social networks are simply technology companies and not publishers, Collins said: \u201cFacebook is a major media platform. Just to say this is a technology platform isn\u2019t good enough anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then went on to highlight the fact that social media was now a mature industry controlling the \u201clion\u2019s share\u201d of the advertising market.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will face questions from parliamentarians later this spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs are set to consider if social networks require greater legislation to force them to improve the way they handle complaints. The parliamentary enquiry has been called after a BBC investigation highlighted issues around Facebook\u2019s failure to remove sexualised images of children from its network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":100904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,3734],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100990,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100901\/revisions\/100990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}