Lords Committee open new inquiry into media literacy with evidence from Alan Turing Institute and the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab

The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will tomorrow hold its first evidence session in a new inquiry into media literacy.

The Committee are exploring media literacy in the UK and how it can be improved. Only 45% of UK adults are confident they can judge whether sources of information are truthful and just 30% believe they can identify content that is created by AI.

In the first evidence session the Committee will explore the primary challenges facing the UK’s online information environment, and how UK citizens can become better equipped to navigate them.

The evidence session will start at 3.00pm on Tuesday 25 March in Committee Room 4 of the House of Lords. Giving evidence will be:

• Dr Mhairi Aitken, Senior Ethics Fellow in the Public Policy Programme, The Alan

Turing Institute

• Professor Sander van der Linden, Professor of Social Psychology in Society and

Director, Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab, University of Cambridge

Areas the session will cover include:

• The most pressing risks and threats facing the UK’s online information environment and how these may change with technological developments.
• How well equipped the UK is to respond to these threats, and where efforts to improve media literacy should be targeted.
• The role of the Government, regulators, tech platforms and the media industry itself in improving media literacy.