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Microsoft browser warns users that Daily Mail website “fails to maintain basic standards of accuracy”.
Hacked Off respond to revelations that the Mail have been found uncredible as a news source by Microsoft browser add-on NewsGuard: “A powerful and saddening indictment of the absence of regulation for…
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Press Release: News Media Association abandons legal challenge against PRP
16.01.19 The News Media Association (NMA) has abandoned its appeal against a Judicial Review ruling made by the High Court in October 2017. The Court rejected the NMA’s attempt to challenge the…
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Gatwick Drones and Cliff’s Law debate: privacy invasion without public interest justification
Debate on whether a new law should be introduced, dubbed ‘Cliff’s Law’, has recently resurfaced. This is in part due to the ‘Gatwick Drones’ coverage over the Christmas period, when a couple…
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Hacked Off demand protections for the innocent who are named before charge
On December 23rd 2018 two innocent members of the public were identified in national newspapers as being arrested on suspicion of criminal activity relating to the drone interference at Gatwick airport the…
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Hacked Off respond to PRP discovery that the Panel has been “designated as within the Ministry of Justice boundary”
The Chairman of the Press Recognition Panel has written to the Government regarding the Panel’s apparent “designation” within the “boundary” of the Ministry of Justice. The Press Recognition Panel is an independent…
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Fresh evidence of Mail on Sunday complicity in criminal conduct emerges months after Government cancel public inquiry protested by ex-editor-in-chief Paul Dacre
Reports have emerged this week which show email evidence that former Mail on Sunday senior editor Chris Anderson received material which allegedly included voicemail transcripts from the phone of the nanny who…
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Innocent couple vilified in Gatwick drones coverage
Innocent members of the public have once again been exposed nationwide in newspapers over a crime they did not commit. You will be familiar with the “Gatwick drones” story that dominated…
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Press Release: Hacked Off backs Newsquest Cumbria journalists striking over pay and conditions enforced by Newsquest
Newsquest, since taking over Cumbria Newspapers in March 2018, has made more than 100 staff redundant. These staff cuts have meant the loss of highly experienced journalists. Journalists at Newsquest Cumbria…
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Press Release: Government to introduce new protections for investigative journalism in Counter Terror Bill after Hacked Off campaign
Last night, in response to amendments tabled by Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb and supported by Hacked Off, the Government agreed to pursue new protections for journalists from stop and search powers in…
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Press Release: Hacked Off demand protections for investigative journalism in government’s counter-terror bill
Hacked Off and other free expression campaigners have called for changes to the government’s counter terror bill in an open letter published today in the Financial Times. Kate Goold, the lawyer…
