John Penrose, a Tory MP, has tabled an amendment to the Online Censorship Bill currently being debated in Parliament: To move the following Clause--
Factual Accuracy
(1) The purpose of this section is to reduce the risk of harm to users of regulated services caused my disinformation or misinformation. (2) Any Regulated Service must provide an index of the historic factual
accuracy of material published by each user who has-- (a) produced user-generated content,
(b) news publisher content, or
(c) comments and reviews on provider contact
whose content is viewed more widely than a minimum threshold to be defined and set by OFCOM.
(3) The index under subsection (1) must-- (a) satisfy minimum quality criteria to be set
by OFCOM, and
(b) be displayed in a way which allows any user easily to reach an informed view of the likely factual accuracy of the content at the same time as they encounter it.
Surely it is a
case of be careful what you wish for. After all it would be great to see truth scores attached to all politicians social media posts. I somehow think that other MPs will rather see the flaws in this idea and will be rather quick to see it consigned to
the parliamentary trash can. | 
