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Unfair fight: Hacked Off research reveals extent of press bias in race to be PM
Research by Annabel Burr Liz Truss' election as the UK's next Prime Minister marks a significant turnaround after she almost missed out on the run-off altogether, having been behind both Rishi Sunak… -
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Hacked Off: Rishi Sunak pledges attack on press freedom & Leveson system
By Nathan Sparkes The Conservative MP and candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has pledged to repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013… -
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Hacked Off demand changes to Online Safety Bill’s media exemption, as Government indicates u-turn on foreign disinformation
After Hacked Off criticised the Government’s Online Safety Bill’s media exemption, which will protect publishers of hostile foreign state disinformation including Russia Today, racist, misogynistic and other abusive publishers from regulation, the…
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Newspapers leap to defence of “extremists’ loophole” in the Online Safety Bill, as Government plans to protect the press from accountability unravel
By Nathan Sparkes Yesterday in the House of Commons the Government was skewered over its plans to allow extremists or dictators to set up front organisations in the UK and brand themselves…
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Leveson Defence Fund
Protect the Leveson reforms The press barons and their friends in Government have thrown everything at the Leveson reforms ever since they were enacted by Parliament, in 2013. They are a threat… -
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Exclusive: IPSO has never upheld a complaint of sexism against the press
Research by Emma Ireland Reportedly more than 5000 complaints have been made to IPSO, the complaints-handler controlled by the press, over the misogynistic coverage of Angela Rayner MP which appeared in the…
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The Misogyny of the Mail’s Base Instincts
By Emma Jones Condemnation of Angela Rayner’s treatment by the Mail on Sunday – who published a story blaming her legs for the fact she is a better public speaker than…
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Russia Today set to benefit from press exemption to the Government’s Online Safety Bill
A Hacked Off investigation has revealed that Russia Today, the Russian media outlet accused of peddling Kremlin-backed disinformation, is set to benefit from an exemption in the Government’s forthcoming plans for regulating…
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The Online Safety Bill: Riddled with dangerous loopholes
By Nathan Sparkes On 17th March 2022, the Government finally published the Online Safety Bill, which will now make its way through Parliament – with the expectation that it will ultimately become…
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Online Safety Bill: Government plans to regulate YOUR Twitter account more than the Daily Mail’s
The Government has today published the final version of the Online Safety Bill which, through specific exemptions, puts the rights and interests of the press above those of the public. The Bill…
