{"id":63767,"date":"2026-06-07T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ministers-may-try-to-curb-spread-of-misinformation-during-social-unrest-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T08:11:06","slug":"ministers-may-try-to-curb-spread-of-misinformation-during-social-unrest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/07\/ministers-may-try-to-curb-spread-of-misinformation-during-social-unrest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers may try to curb spread of misinformation during social unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology secretary Liz Kendall says she is \u2018very concerned\u2019 about role of social media but will not be \u2018bullied off\u2019 X<\/p>\n<p>The government is considering fresh action to halt the spread of misinformation during public crises, Liz Kendall has said, insisting she will not be \u201cbullied off\u201d Elon Musk\u2019s X.<\/p>\n<p>The technology secretary was speaking after rioting broke out in Southampton over the police response to the fatal stabbing of Henry Nowak, a case about which Musk has repeatedly posted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/jun\/06\/ministers-may-curb-misinformation-musk-x-liz-kendall\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology secretary Liz Kendall says she is \u2018very concerned\u2019 about role of social media but will not be \u2018bullied off\u2019 X The government is considering fresh action to halt the spread of misinformation during public crises, Liz Kendall has said, insisting she will not be \u201cbullied off\u201d Elon Musk\u2019s X. The technology secretary was speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}