Speeches by Darlington.

“You are talking about some really classic cases of traditional election manipulation. I am not sure if you are aware of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s report into misinformation and disinformation during the riots and the role that state actors played within that. While they did not create it, the e…”

“Picking up on your point about deepfakes, the current legal position is that it is illegal to “make or publish a false statement of fact about the personal character or conduct of a candidate”—that is off your website. Do you think that that is strong enough legislation for deepfakes?”

“Do you think they are being honest?”

“There is an important point here. The beginning of my question was on how you are monitoring spend by UK political parties on bots.”

“This is in the same vein, but it is not about me. There are 73 TikTok accounts posting thousands of deepfakes about Keir Starmer announcing controversial policies—obviously, outside the election period. They have names like “BBB UK News” and “Daily Britain News”. We are not sure whether these are foreign state actors o…”

“I am conscious of time. A quick question, how does the Electoral Commission monitor spend by political parties on bots or foreign bot activity to amplify or attack parties? It may be different during short or long elections, but this is clearly one of the ways in which we know foreign actors are interfering or creating…”

“Picking up on your point about deepfakes, the current legal position is that it is illegal to “make or publish a false statement of fact about the personal character or conduct of a candidate”—that is off your website. Do you think that that is strong enough legislation for deepfakes?”

“And you can buy them.”

“You are talking about some really classic cases of traditional election manipulation. I am not sure if you are aware of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee’s report into misinformation and disinformation during the riots and the role that state actors played within that. While they did not create it, the e…”

“And some clarity about which agency has responsibility for that. What is the role of the Electoral Commission? What is the role of security services? Everyone seems to say that this is somebody else’s responsibility.”

“Do you think they are being honest?”

“There is an important point here. The beginning of my question was on how you are monitoring spend by UK political parties on bots.”

“Do you think they are being honest?”

“There is an important point here. The beginning of my question was on how you are monitoring spend by UK political parties on bots.”

“This is in the same vein, but it is not about me. There are 73 TikTok accounts posting thousands of deepfakes about Keir Starmer announcing controversial policies—obviously, outside the election period. They have names like “BBB UK News” and “Daily Britain News”. We are not sure whether these are foreign state actors o…”

“I am conscious of time. A quick question, how does the Electoral Commission monitor spend by political parties on bots or foreign bot activity to amplify or attack parties? It may be different during short or long elections, but this is clearly one of the ways in which we know foreign actors are interfering or creating…”

“And you can buy them.”

“This is in the same vein, but it is not about me. There are 73 TikTok accounts posting thousands of deepfakes about Keir Starmer announcing controversial policies—obviously, outside the election period. They have names like “BBB UK News” and “Daily Britain News”. We are not sure whether these are foreign state actors o…”

“I am conscious of time. A quick question, how does the Electoral Commission monitor spend by political parties on bots or foreign bot activity to amplify or attack parties? It may be different during short or long elections, but this is clearly one of the ways in which we know foreign actors are interfering or creating…”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her absolutely clear message that what X is doing, through the use of Grok, is illegal. That is as much the platform’s responsibility as it is the user’s. I am afraid that there is less confidence in Ofcom’s ability to enforce the Online Safety Act as it stands, or in the improvements…”