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Phone hacking: BBC director general candidate accused of destroying evidence
Will Lewis, one of the applicants reportedly shortlisted to be the next head of the BBC, has been accused of aiding the concealment and destruction of millions of emails relating to…
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Hacked Off: Government plan to regulate your nan’s Facebook more stringently than the Mail Online branded utterly absurd
Yesterday in evidence to the Home Affairs Committee, the Minister for Digital and Culture said that the Government’s proposed “Online Harms” regulatory regime will effectively apply to private citizens’ social media…
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Hacked Off Submission to DCMS Committee Inquiry
Hacked Off Inquiry Submission: https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hacked-Off-Inquiry-Submission.pdf Hacked Off Appendix: https://hackinginquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Hacked-Off-Appendix.pdf
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Hacked Off finds reader comments on The Sun website were broadcasting 5G “fake news”/disinformation for at least two weeks
Hacked Off has found that under an article about 5G mast locations published by The Sun newspaper on 6th April, several reader comments falsely alleged 5G was unsafe. The article…
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Gareth Thomas’ story must be told
Gareth Thomas suffered serious intrusion and abuse at the hands of a British newspaper. Noone should be blackmailed into revealing private details of their health in a newspaper, while living in fear…
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Hacked Off research reveals extent of relentless intrusion on singer Jesy Nelson
Hacked Off research reveals the extent of a 7-day press assault on the privacy and personal life of Jesy Nelson, only months after Ms Nelson spoke about her battles with mental…
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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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Print media in the UK is the least trusted in Europe again
Print media in the UK is the least trusted out of all European countries. In an annual survey of 33 countries (EU states as well as acceding and candidate countries), the…
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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…
