<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In the UK, Members of Parliament warned that the country faces a democratic crisis due to the spread of pernicious views and the manipulation of personal data. </span></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In its report, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Parliament Committee set up to investigate disinformation and fake news following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal suggest that Social media sites should be held responsible for harmful content on their services. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The committee suggested that the rules on political campaigns should be made fit for the digital age. It also recommended that technology companies should be taxed to fund education and regulation and social networks should be audited.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Meanwhile, Electronics and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told Rajya Sabha on Thursday that Centre has asked the CBI to investigate the role of Cambridge Analytica which is suspected to have illegally obtained data of Indians. </div>