Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 93839

Social Media: Hate Crime

Tabled: 24 November 2025
Answered: 2 December 2025

Question

Jim McMahon

Labour (Co-op)Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment her Department has made of trends in the number of instances of (a) antisemitism (b) Islamophobia (c) other forms of race and religion based hate on social media platfor

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
Under the Online Safety Act, in-scope services must protect all users from illegal abusive and hateful content, and children from abusive content where it does not reach the criminal threshold. In October, the Secretary of State wrote to Ofcom and asked i...

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