Thanks for this Fabian. Whilst individual responses would be great I'm also happy to draft/co-ordinate a response from Wikimedia UK. John Lubbock gave an interview on fake news recently and I agree that we are very well positioned to respond to this. I note the deadline is 3rd March so will follow this up in February.
All best Lucy
On 31 January 2017 at 13:54, leutha@fabiant.eu wrote:
Hi all,
I have just emailed Damian Collins MP http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/damian-collins/3986, chair of the Culture, Media and Sport Committee, who are conducting an inquiry into Fake News as regards releasing under an Open Government license Gill Bennett's *A Most Extraordinary and Mysterious Business: The Zinoviev Letter of 1924* published by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, General Services Command in 1999. Please see the Wikipedia article on the Zinoviev letter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviev_letter for more details.
Aside from encouraging others to lobby Damian Collins for the release of this piece of scholarship, I would also be interested if there is an interest amongst Wikimedia UK to give a written submission to the Fake News Inquiry. I can't help feeling that over the last 8 years or so we have gained significant experience in dealing with "Fake News" and other manifestations of misinformation and that we have achieved a certain amount of success. In fact I believe if we hadn't done this Wikipedia would not have gained its current reputation.
I would welcome other peoples views on this. For more information please see the Call for Written submissions http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/news-parliament-2015/fake-news-launch-16-17/ .
all the best
Fabian
(aka Leutha)
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