Social Media: Fraud
Commons · Question 24829 · Tabled 20 Jan 2025 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 28 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by 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
Answered by Dan Jarvis, 28 Jan 2025
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 ...