Online platforms could be forced to maintain a score of how truthful a person is, under new legislation proposed by MP John Penrose.
Penrose said that the purpose is to reduce the risk of harm to users of regulated services caused by “disinformation or misinformation.”
The person’s speech would then 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.”
Penrose proposed in an amendment to the Online Safety Bill (pdf) that 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 the UK online safety regulator Ofcom.”…