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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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Newspapers published more than 50 distortive or inaccurate stories about COVID
Read the full report here A free and accountable press is never more important than at times of national crisis. Yet throughout the COVID-19 pandemic some newspapers have been guilty of… -
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WATCH NOW: Former Australian PM Kevin Rudd in conversation with Hacked Off, introduced by Hugh Grant
Hacked Off are delighted to present an exclusive in conversation, with Former Australian Prime Minister KEVIN RUDD and Hacked Off Board Director Professor STEVEN BARNETT. Kevin Rudd was the 26th Prime Minister… -
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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…
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A snapshot into fatal domestic abuse reporting: how IPSO has failed, and why code change is the first step to improving reporting
READ THE FULL BRIEFING HERE For too long, reporting of domestic violence in the press has been seriously inadequate. Coverage has sought to justify the actions of perpetrators. The conduct…
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A quiet revolution in press standards: IMPRESS overtakes IPSO to become dominant standards body
This is not what was supposed to happen. Eight years ago, the Leveson Report made recommendations for a system of independent regulation – and the largest newspaper publishers set out…
