Jeffrey Howard (UCL) and Maxime Lepoutre (Reading) collaborated on a submission to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, which put out a call for evidence on the role of misinformation in leading to the 2024 summer riots — and how the Online Safety Act could be used to reduce the risk that such incidents will be incited online.

See here for our submission.

You can also see a separate submission by Digital Speech Lab Faculty Fellow Beatriz Kira (Sussex) here.