Facebook and Twitter could face sanctions if they continue to stonewall parliament over Russian interference in the EU referendum, the chair of a Commons inquiry has said, according to the Guardian.
Damian Collins, chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Sport select committee, which is looking into so-called "fake news", has given the companies until January 18 to correct their failure to hand over information he requested about Russian misinformation campaigns on their platforms, reads the Guardian's report.
"There has to be a way of scrutinizing the procedures that companies like Facebook put in place to help them identify known sources of disinformation, particularly when it's politically motivated and coming from another country," Collins said.
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"But what there has to be then is some mechanism of saying: if you fail to do that, if you ignore requests to act, if you fail to police the site effectively and deal with highly problematic content, then there has to be some sort of sanction against you."
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