Written Question·Home Office·UIN 24829

Social Media: Fraud

Tabled: 20 January 2025

Answered: 28 January 2025

Question

Mark Pritchard

To ask the Secretary of State for Home Department, if she will bring forward legislative proposals to make it a criminal offence to create fake online media accounts for public bodies and organisations where the communication of official and public inform

Answer

Dan Jarvis

Under the Online Safety Act, all services in scope must tackle illegal content and activity which enables fraud, including activity through fake and anonymous accounts. The illegal harms duties will come into force in Spring 2025.More broadly, government ...

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