John Penrose
 John Penrose      (politician) | |
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| Born | John David Penrose 22 June 1964 |
| Spouse | Dido Harding |
| Party | Conservative Party (UK) |
British politician who wants government to assign a mandatory "truth score" to every online commenter. | |
John Penrose is a British politician serving as Member of Parliament (MP) for Weston-super-Mare since the 2005 General Election. A member of the Conservative Party, Penrose served as Minister of State for Northern Ireland from 2018 to 2019.[1] He previously served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport from 2010 to 2012 and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 2014 to 2016.[2]
John Penrose is married to Baroness Harding, chair of NHS Improvement, NHS Test and Trace and NIHP. The couple met when they were employed by management consultants McKinsey.[3]
Truth score
In 2022, Penrose proposed an addition to the UK’s internet censorship bill, “The Online Safety Bill”. The proposal says that every user that produces online content, including “comments and reviews” and who receives a certain number of online views, which is to be determined by the UK communications regulator, should have their content indexed and assigned a truth score. The person’s speech is then to be “displayed in a way which allows any user easily to reach an informed view of the likely factual accuracy of the content at the same time as they encounter it.” “The purpose of this section is to reduce the risk of harm to users of regulated services caused my (sic) disinformation or misinformation”[4]
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