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Claims that private investigator employed by The Sun illegally spied on Meghan Markle: Hacked Off response
Byline Investigates has reported today that a private investigator who was paid by The Sun to access personal information about Meghan Markle did so unlawfully. This alleged conduct would appear to…
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Society of Editors’ half-retraction not good enough
The Society of Editors has today partially retracted their statement of Monday March 8th, which dismissed concerns of racism in the press. Responding, Hacked Off Policy Director Nathan Sparkes said: This statement…
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Hacked Off and anti-racism NGOs call for Society of Editors retraction
Hacked Off and several leading anti-racism NGOs have written to the Society of Editors, calling on them to retract their claim that the press is “not racist”. The Society’s wholesale denial…
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Summary judgment issued in Duchess of Sussex v The Mail (Associated Newspapers)
Commenting on the summary judgment issued today in the Duchess of Sussex’s privacy and copyright claims against Mail publisher Associated Newspapers, Hacked Off Policy Director Nathan Sparkes said, No-one should have…
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IPSO responds to The Fake News Ferret report on Covid-19 discrimination
IPSO’s response claims that the evidence used for the report is not publicly available. Hacked Off Policy Director Nathan Sparkes said, “The damaging allegation that Hacked Off did not make the evidence…
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Hacked Off report identifies 55 fake news stories about Covid-19 published in National Newspapers in 2020. IPSO failed to uphold a complaint on any of the stories included in the report.
IPSO has failed to take action over more than 50 national newspaper articles containing dangerous conspiracy theories and disinformation about Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic – a Hacked Off report…
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Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd: Murdoch media “political equivalent of a mafia operation”, Hugh Grant accuses of Boris Johnson of lacking “the stomach” to stand up to Murdoch
Kevin Rudd, the 26th Prime Minister of Australia, has exclusively spoken to Hacked Off in a revealing 40 minute interview about the influence and power of Rupert Murdoch & his media empire.… -
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Hacked Off: Government’s Online Harms proposals “hopelessly weak and manifestly inadequate”
The Government has today published its long awaited response to the Online Harms White Paper. Despite evidence of racist, abusive and anti-Semitic content in newspaper comment sections, those social media platforms have…
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Hacked Off respond to Editors’ Code Review outcome
Editors renew press license to abuse minority groups IPSO have “bottled it” Outcome “a stark reminder of why a cabal of newspaper editors should not be in charge of the standards code…
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Hacked Off joins Refuge, White Ribbon, Centre for Women’s Justice and WISH in calling for action on unethical and irresponsible fatal domestic abuse reporting
Hacked Off has today published a briefing on misreporting of fatal domestic abuse in the press. Five featured articles illustrate how expert guidelines on domestic abuse reporting have been ignored. Alongside…
