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The culture Secretary, to Social Media companies will be to associate more aggressive in their response to the conspiracy theories 5G networks to the Corona-Virus-pandemic.

Oliver Dowden plans to hold virtual meetings with the representatives of the various tech companies, discuss it in the next week to The Matter .

There are A Number of 5G set-poles, apparently, On Fire .

The issue of obligations will test in The Company to freedom of expression.

fires masts have been reported in Birmingham, Liverpool and Melling in Merseyside.

A spokesman for Vodafone-mobile-network-told The Bbc that there had been a total of four incidents over The Past 24 hours on both their own Websites and this, together with O2, but not the identification of the locations.

"We received several reports of damage to mobile phone masts and the abuse of telecoms engineers seem to theories circulating online inspired by crazy conspiracy" a spokeswoman for The Department of Digital Culture , Media and Sport, told The Bbc .

"Those responsible for criminal acts, the Full Force of The Law .

"We also need to see, to act on Social Media -The Company responsible and the taking of much faster action to stop the Nonsense spread on your platform that promotes such acts. "

DCMS has yet to confirm what tech-summoned to be firm.

'hogwash'

will Change the spread of the False theories, to smaller platforms like Nextdoor, Pinterest, and the petitions Website. org as well as larger including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Tiktok .

Between Covid-19 and 5G is "utter Nonsense " and biologically impossible.

Some of the platforms have already taken steps to solve The Problem , but still not banned discussion of the topic completely.

Pinterest, for example, limits its search results for Corona to show Virus and related terms attached information of the recognized organizations in the health field, but do not have a similar restriction for 5G.

Facebook said, there are A Number of groups, the poles, the promotion of attacks on 5G also had to be removed.

But, a post with the title "Burn baby Burn - it's begun", along with videos of telecommunications equipment in the fire, only about six hours after it has been marked, to the corporate press office.

YouTube bans some types of fake posts about Covid-19, but classes of conspiracy theories linking The Virus to the 5G as the "marginal contents". As a result, he said, it is trying to reduce the frequency of its algorithms to recommend it, but not delete The Videos from its platform.

A spokeswoman for the Google-owned service said it will "assess the impact" of this approach. It has, however, to remove a video flagged by The Bbc that featured threatening language.

to Change. org, said the open type, the, someone, a petition on any issue you cared, but added, you must remain in accordance with its guidelines, to online.

"We have removed A Number of petitions to make unsubstantiated health claims about 5G is added to The Platform ," a spokeswoman for.

Vodafone has said the attacks are "today is a matter of National Security ".

"It beggars belief that Some People to damage, which are networks of essential connections to emergency services, the NHS, and the rest of the country during this difficult lockdown time," wrote the British chief executive Nick Jeffery .

"It makes me angry to know that Some People have been abused by our engineers as they go about their business.

"Online-stories connect the spread of the coronavirus to 5G are completely unfounded. Please don't share it on Social Media fake news can have serious consequences. "

The Gsma , a trade body that represents the wider mobile Industry - pushed the Social Media and other content-hosting to speed up provider "for their efforts to eliminate the fake news" in relation to The Problem .

The Campaign against 5G is thriving on Social Media for the Last Year .

Facebook in particular is full of groups that claim the technology is dangerous, with many of them also anti-vaccine-news press.

Until recently, apart from the strange fact-check message, in addition to the contributions, the companies have done little to counter this trend. Neither Twitter nor YouTube, for example, has an option in their reporting systems, the misinformation.

on Friday, complaints of Facebook moderators, a group, to promote which appeared to be arson attacks on 5G masts received a reply to say that the page have "violate our community Standards " - although, according to The Bbc contacted Facebook's press office, it was shut down.

In normal times, the Social Media platforms are very curb cautious to what you as an essential part of their mission: the people The Right to freedom of expression, however absurd or unscientific, your views.

But these are not normal times.

The government is effectively waging A War against a deadly virus, and keyworkers in search of vital infrastructure from abuse, may be inspired by these Social Media activists.

the means to combat That there is now pressure on the likes of Facebook, YouTube, Tiktok and Twitter, which has called a minister to be "dangerous Nonsense " and you want to be seen to act responsibly, even if some of your users cry Censorship .

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Source of news: bbc.com