Tech firms ‘not doing enough’ to combat harmful content ahead of general election

The biggest tech and social media companies are falling short on protecting users from content designed to disrupt democracy by not working together on the issue, a joint committee of Parliament has warned.

The Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy (JCNSS) said it was concerned by the differing approaches across different tech firms around monitoring and regulating potentially harmful content.

The committee said the evidence it had received from the biggest platforms, as part of its defending democracy inquiry, showed based on their own sets of principles, rather than co-ordinating standards and best practice.