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 NarayanUnder 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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