Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
Digital Technology and the Resurrection of TrustReport of Session 2019-21 – published 29 June 2020 – HL Paper 77
Contents
Box 1: Definition of platforms
Figure 1: Examples of daily activity across social media platforms globally
The Committee’s work and acknowledgements
Box 2: Definition of misinformation and disinformation
Tackling misinformation and disinformation online
Making use of parliamentary expertise
Accountability and the technology platforms
Figure 2: Timeline of progress on the Online Harms White Paper
Freedom of expression in the online world
Platforms’ ultimate responsibility under a duty of care
Appealing platforms’ decisions
Do platforms cause polarisation and degrade democratic discourse?
Algorithmic design and outrage factories
Access for independent researchers
Box 4: How Google’s algorithms work
Transparency in content moderation
Box 5: President Trump and content moderation study
Chapter 5: Inclusive debate across society
The role of technology in tackling the challenges facing democracy
Supporting technological innovation in democracy
Technology as a tool, but not a panacea for problems facing democracy
How Government and Parliament could better use digital tools
Chapter 6: Free and fair elections
Box 6: Definition of campaigner
Figure 4: Timeline of electoral developments throughout modern British history
Outside the formal investigation period
Box 8: Mozilla Guidelines for Effective Advert Archives
Campaigners’ use of personal data
Chapter 7: Active digital citizens
Digital skills and digital media literacy
Box 9: Definition of digital media literacy
Table 1: Digital Media Literacy and Digital Skills in the Curriculum
Table 2: Digital pedagogy in Estonia and Finland
Who has responsibility for digital media literacy?
Teaching digital media literacy
Box 10: JCQ Statistics on take-up of computing GCSE and A-level
Making social media companies understandable to the public
Anonymity as a barrier to understanding content on the internet