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BREAKING: Victims denounce IPSO Board appointment of former Daily Mail assistant editor
IPSO has today announced the appointment of a new CEO, Charlotte Dewar, and four new board members. Two of the newly appointed board-members, Charles Garside and Brendan McGinty, have both at…
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Hacked Off: The Sun found to be hosting antisemitic content, IPSO fails to act
Hacked Off has found antisemitic content published in The Sun newspaper’s comment section under an article reporting on Wiley’s antisemitic Tweets. The Sun website, which reaches over 7 million people…
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Extraordinary extent of Murdoch’s access to Government exposed in Hacked Off research:
206 Meetings between Murdoch company staff & Government in last two years 5 personal meetings between Rupert Murdoch & Ministers 2018-19 Murdoch met Boris Johnson three times in last two years, and…
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Hacked Off report exposes racism and fake news in newspaper comment sections
Report reveals some newspapers and their pet complaints-handler IPSO have failed to stop fake news and racist abuse on their platforms – despite campaigning for Facebook & Twitter to be regulated Abusive…
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Sun and Mail’s coverage of domestic abuser was dangerous and unethical: Campaigners and Hacked Off demand independent regulation to address domestic violence reporting
Hacked Off and leading advocates for victims of domestic violence have written to Home, Culture and Women & Equalities Secretaries Priti Patel, Oliver Dowden and Elizabeth Truss to demand action from…
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David Challen responds to Sun & Mail coverage of domestic abuser
The Sun and the Daily Mail have today been accused of publishing frontpage coverage which trivialises domestic violence and gives voice to an remorseless abuser at a moment when cases of domestic…
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Hacked Off: Government ad deal is “rewarding the fat cats while starving quality, independent, local journalism”
£35m of taxpayers’ money has been handed over to corporate newspapers and their wealthy owners while smaller, independent publishers struggle from the impact of COVID-19. An investigation by Byline Investigates…
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Downing Street bans OpenDemocracy from asking a question at Covid-19 press briefings
OpenDemocracy reporter James Cusack has revealed that he has been prevented from asking a question at the daily press briefings. OpenDemocracy has said an adviser in 10 Downing Street directly told the…
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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…
