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Heather Mills: Highest media settlement in British legal history
Heather Mills has received one of the highest media settlements in legal history, and received an apology from News Group Newspapers at the high court today after settling her phone-hacking case against…
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Phone-hacking settlement makes legal history
Heather Mills has received one of the highest media privacy settlements in legal history, and received an apology from News Group Newspapers at the high court today after settling her phone-hacking case…
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The Times fails to identify a single error in damning report exposing series of substantively false stories about Muslims
On Wednesday June 26th, a report by Professor Brian Cathcart and Paddy French, “Unmasked”, was published. The report examined a series of investigative stories run by the paper which had the effect…
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The Times exposed: is this what racism looks like?
This report chronicles three major stories by a single journalist all of which contain allegations against a specific community. It is notable that each of these error-strewn articles were written by the…
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Hacked Off write to Prime Minister Jacinda Arden ahead of ‘Christchurch Call’
A huge thank you to almost 6,000 of you who wrote to the Government asking that the “Christchurch Call” pledge apply to newspapers and websites, alongside social media companies. In New…
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Government labelled “Corrupt” over Leveson Part Two suppression in R4 Documentary
On Sunday May 5th, Radio 4 aired the documentary “The Press, the Police, the Politicians and Their Public”, which challenged the Government’s claim that completing the Leveson Inquiry was no longer in…
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Press Release: Hacked Off analysis of media coverage of the Christchurch Attacks
Christchurch attack: Analysis reveals role of traditional media publishers in amplifying hatred Government criticised for exempting the same publishers from proposed online harms regulator Parliamentary Committees briefed on the role of newspaper…
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INFLECTION POINT: Hacked Off analysis of media coverage of the Christchurch Attacks
Christchurch: When social media platforms became publishers of extremism and news websites became amplifiers of hatred. READ THE REPORT HERE Some media companies propagated footage from the Christchurch attack to,…
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Hacked Off launches videogame about technology and journalists
Dan Hett, brother of Martyn Hett who was tragically killed at the Manchester Arena Attack in 2017, has created a videogame based on his own experiences of press intrusion to offer a…
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Press complaints-handler’s credibility falls to new low: IPSO fails to find “made-up” quote inaccurate
In an IPSO ruling published today, the complaints-handler found that a Times article with an invented quotation was nonetheless compliant with the Editors’ Code. The Times article alleged that, in respect…
