From The Gallery
Extreme positions surface on tackling falsehoods
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Yesterday's parliamentary Select Committee session was the longest since hearings started two weeks ago, stretching from 10am to 9pm and reflecting the degree to which some disagree with the introduction of any new laws to counter deliberate online falsehoods.
Even, it emerged, if the laws are designed to deal with falsehoods that are factually false and deliberately spread for nefarious means.

