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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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HACKED OFF: Reports of Government plans to repeal Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013
Commenting on reports that the Government will seek to repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 this year, a part of the Leveson framework for press regulation, Hacked Off…
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Former Hacked Off Director & MP Dr Evan Harris alleges “widespread illegality” at The Sun newspaper, as hacking claim is settled
A statement in open court was read today at the High Court in the phone hacking claim brought by Dr Evan Harris, a former Hacked Off Director, Liberal Democrat MP and international…
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Mail on Sunday journalist could lose lobby pass: “Sexism in the press is a cultural problem which cannot be addressed by confiscating the lobby pass of an individual journalist”
Responding to the Mail on Sunday’s coverage of Angela Rayner MP, and subsequent threats to remove the author’s Parliamentary lobby pass, Hacked Off Board Director Emma Jones said, Sexism in the press…
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Hacked Off: Russia Today Online Safety exemption “a threat to the interests & safety of the British public”
Hacked Off has revealed that Russian state-owned media outlet Russia Today is set to benefit from the “recognised news publisher” exemption in the Online Safety Bill. This exemption, which had been lobbied…
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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…
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Press Recognition Panel warns of “chilling effect on free speech”; finds “IPSO is not a regulator”, as the Government holds out against the Leveson system
The independent Press Recognition Panel, in its sixth Annual State of Recognition Report, was highly critical of industry-controlled press complaints-handler, IPSO. The Panel found, “IPSO is not a regulator, and it manifestly…
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Allegations the Government are seeking to “cancel” opponents with hostile press coverage: Hacked Off comment
Commenting on reports that Government whips are seeking to target Conservative MPs with negative press coverage, Hacked Off Chief Executive Nathan Sparkes said, Reports that the prospect of hostile press coverage…
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Statement: IPSO refuses standards investigation into newspaper despite serious and systemic misreporting
Hacked Off comment: “IPSO have bottled it… they have never launched an investigation and it is increasingly clear they never will” The Jewish Chronicle has breached the Editors’ Code of Conduct 33…
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THE SUN accused of cover-up, as News UK settles hacking claim with Sienna Miller
15 more phone-hacking claims against The Sun and The News of the World publisher News Group Newspapers have been settled, with a statement read out in open court this morning on behalf…
