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Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry executives address MPs over social networking involvement in riots

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 16, 2011 | 1 min read

The Home Affairs Select Committee has heard that Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry’s were not used to organise the riots that took place across England last month.

Representatives from each of the companies told MPs yesterday that there were ‘no evidence’ that their services were used in the coordination of the riots in August.

Stephen Bates, managing director of Blackberry maker Research in Motion, Richard Allan, policy director, Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Facebook and Alexander Macgillivray, general counsel for Twitter who is responsible for public policy all addressed MPs to deny that their services could be blamed for the rioting.

Bates defended the use of social media during the riots, at one stage claiming; “We saw many instances while the riots were happening where social media were used to check people were safe and they had got to places where they wanted to.”

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