{"id":20503,"date":"2025-10-18T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/uk-mps-warn-of-repeat-of-2024-riots-unless-online-misinformation-is-tackled\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T07:37:37","slug":"uk-mps-warn-of-repeat-of-2024-riots-unless-online-misinformation-is-tackled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/uk-mps-warn-of-repeat-of-2024-riots-unless-online-misinformation-is-tackled\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MPs warn of repeat of 2024 riots unless online misinformation is tackled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science and technology select committee says complacency over social media content puts public at risk<\/p>\n<p>Failures to properly tackle online misinformation mean it is \u201conly a matter of time\u201d before viral content triggers a repeat of the 2024 summer riots, MPs have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Chi Onwurah, the chair of the Commons science and technology select committee, said ministers seemed complacent about the threat and this was putting the public at risk.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/17\/uks-riots-of-2024-will-repeat-unless-misinformation-is-tackled-mps-warn\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a6dbeed0c488c0afa8081dc9f842d4273508c300\/119_0_5186_4149\/master\/5186.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a46558cd3eabca61b190813cf1b502e6\" title=\"UK MPs warn of repeat of 2024 riots unless online misinformation is tackled\" \/>Science and technology select committee says complacency over social media content puts public at risk<br \/>\nFailures to properly tackle online misinformation mean it is \u201conly a matter of time\u201d before viral content triggers a repeat of the 2024 summer riots, MPs have warned.<br \/>\nChi Onwurah, the chair of the Commons science and technology select committee, said ministers seemed complacent about the threat and this was putting the public at risk. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science and technology select committee says complacency over social media content puts public at risk Failures to properly tackle online misinformation mean it is \u201conly a matter of time\u201d before viral content triggers a repeat of the 2024 summer riots, MPs have warned. Chi Onwurah, the chair of the Commons science and technology select committee, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/uk-mps-warn-of-repeat-of-2024-riots-unless-online-misinformation-is-tackled\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK MPs warn of repeat of 2024 riots unless online misinformation is tackled<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}