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Guestblog: The Brexit Boom which had nothing to do with Brexit
New Hacked Off supporter Terry Pearson writes about his experience complaining to IPSO. I’ve never complained about a newspaper article before, but I felt compelled to do so after reading…
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Daily Mail misleads readers and tries to bully teachers: Government policy on COVID-19 should be dictated by the science, not by the corporate press
The Daily Mail, which has campaigned for restrictions to be dropped through its editorials and other coverage for several weeks, has now turned its fire on the teachers’ unions. Over the…
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The fake news continues!
The Sun newspaper has been criticising celebrities and social media platforms for the spread of fake news about coronavirus despite the fact that comments on its own website were broadcasting dangerous…
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Ministers claim the press is ‘trusted’. The polls say the opposite.
By Brian Cathcart Do we trust the press? At the height of the Covid-19 crisis the question is timely, both because the public desperately needs reliable information and because the government…
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Covid-19 Media Scrutiny and Government Accountability
According to a Press Gazette reader poll, 70% believe journalists are not doing a good job of holding the Government to account during daily Covid-19 briefings. With Parliament shutting down for…
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COVID-19 and false 5G conspiracies
By Rose Hayden, Hacked Off Over the last few weeks there has been an outcry of panic over the newest generation of mobile network 5G, and the theory that it may…
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Domestic homicide reporting during the Covid19 crisis.
By Hannah Mian – Campaigns, Hacked Off Reports of domestic violence have seen an increase of up to 21% since the country went into lockdown, with the UK’s largest domestic abuse…
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Covid-19 Misinformation Round-up Week of April 6
We at Hacked Off are committed to limiting the dissemination of potentially life-threatening misinformation in any way we can. Every week we are compiling a weekly round-up of inaccurate or…
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Covid-19 Misinformation Round-up Week of March 30
During this challenging time we face both a pandemic and an infodemic, making it increasingly difficult for us to find reliable information on this coronavirus. Unfortunately, our traditional media outlets are as…
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IPSO flounders after damning report exposes its impotence
It feels like only yesterday that the largest newspaper groups were claiming to have set up, in IPSO, the “toughest [regulator] in the Western world” with the power to award “fines…
