{"id":1684,"date":"2020-06-29T16:40:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:40:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:40:35","slug":"house-of-lords-digital-technology-and-the-resurrection-of-trust-select-committee-on-democracy-and-digital-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"House of Lords – Digital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust – Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies
\nDigital Technology and the Resurrection of Trust<\/h1>\n

Report of Session 2019-21 – published 29 June 2020 – HL Paper 77<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Contents<\/h1>\n
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Foreword by the Chair<\/a><\/p>\n

Summary<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 1: Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 1: Definition of platforms<\/a><\/p>\n

Figure 1: Examples of daily activity across social media platforms globally<\/a><\/p>\n

The Committee\u2019s work and acknowledgements<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 2: Informed Citizens<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 2: Definition of misinformation and disinformation<\/a><\/p>\n

Misinformation and the media<\/a><\/p>\n

Political advertising<\/a><\/p>\n

Tackling misinformation and disinformation online<\/a><\/p>\n

The role of fact checkers<\/a><\/p>\n

Promoting good information<\/a><\/p>\n

Communicating statistics<\/a><\/p>\n

Making use of parliamentary expertise<\/a><\/p>\n

Public interest journalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 3: Accountability<\/a><\/p>\n

Accountability and the technology platforms<\/a><\/p>\n

The Online Harms agenda<\/a><\/p>\n

Figure 2: Timeline of progress on the Online Harms White Paper<\/a><\/p>\n

Freedom of expression in the online world<\/a><\/p>\n

Platforms\u2019 ultimate responsibility under a duty of care<\/a><\/p>\n

Content moderation oversight<\/a><\/p>\n

Appealing platforms\u2019 decisions<\/a><\/p>\n

Parliamentary oversight<\/a><\/p>\n

Regulatory capacity<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 3: The Regulators<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 4: Transparency<\/a><\/p>\n

Do platforms cause polarisation and degrade democratic discourse?<\/a><\/p>\n

Targeted advertising<\/a><\/p>\n

Foreign interference<\/a><\/p>\n

Filter bubbles<\/a><\/p>\n

Algorithmic design and outrage factories<\/a><\/p>\n

Access for independent researchers<\/a><\/p>\n

Algorithmic transparency<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 4: How Google\u2019s algorithms work<\/a><\/p>\n

Algorithmic bias<\/a><\/p>\n

Transparency in content moderation<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 5: President Trump and content moderation study<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 5: Inclusive debate across society<\/a><\/p>\n

The role of technology in tackling the challenges facing democracy<\/a><\/p>\n

Supporting technological innovation in democracy<\/a><\/p>\n

Online voting<\/a><\/p>\n

Technology as a tool, but not a panacea for problems facing democracy<\/a><\/p>\n

A democratic information hub<\/a><\/p>\n

How Government and Parliament could better use digital tools<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 6: Free and fair elections<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 6: Definition of campaigner<\/a><\/p>\n

Electoral law<\/a><\/p>\n

Figure 3: Reported spending by campaigners on digital advertising as a percentage of total advertising spend<\/a><\/p>\n

Figure 4: Timeline of electoral developments throughout modern British history<\/a><\/p>\n

Devolution<\/a><\/p>\n

Imprints<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 7: Imprints<\/a><\/p>\n

Electoral\u00a0Commission powers<\/a><\/p>\n

Outside the formal investigation period<\/a><\/p>\n

Campaigners\u2019 receipts<\/a><\/p>\n

Sanctions<\/a><\/p>\n

Oversight powers<\/a><\/p>\n

Small donations and spending<\/a><\/p>\n

Advert databases<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 8: Mozilla Guidelines for Effective Advert Archives<\/a><\/p>\n

Campaigners\u2019 use of personal data<\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter 7: Active digital citizens<\/a><\/p>\n

Political literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

Digital skills and digital media literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 9: Definition of digital media literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

Table 1: Digital Media Literacy and Digital Skills in the Curriculum<\/a><\/p>\n

Lessons from abroad<\/a><\/p>\n

Table 2: Digital pedagogy in Estonia and Finland<\/a><\/p>\n

Who has responsibility for digital media literacy?<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching digital media literacy<\/a><\/p>\n

Box 10: JCQ Statistics on take-up of computing GCSE and A-level<\/a><\/p>\n

Making social media companies understandable to the public<\/a><\/p>\n

Anonymity as a barrier to understanding content on the internet <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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