If you’re having trouble keeping up with British political controversies and only vaguely familiar with the story of “Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s antisemitism crisis”, you’d be forgiven for thinking from occasionally glimpsed headlines and social media posts that the current leader of the UK opposition party was a “racist and antisemite”, that he had “waged war on the Jews” and that he “posed an existential threat to Jewish life”. Read the rest of this entry »
Debate: Jeremy Corbyn, antisemitism and the British media – Simon Dawes
25 09 2018Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Jeremy Corbyn, Simon Dawes, The Conversation
Categories : Government and Policy, Media
House of Lords Communications Committee Inquiry “The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate?”, An overview of the evidence, Part 3 – Oscar Davies
23 09 2018
This is the final part on a series looking at the evidence submitted for the House of Lords Communications Inquiry “The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate?” (Part 1 and Part 2 were published in July and August). Part 3 considers the responses to questions 7 to 9 of the Call for Evidence. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: House of Lords Communications Committee Report, Oscar Davies
Categories : Government and Policy, Internet, Social Media
Reform charity law to allow funding of public interest journalism – Steven Barnett and Judith Townend
4 09 2018
Reactions to Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative MacTaggart lecture were predictably mixed. But amid proposals that attracted both acclaim and opprobrium in equal measure was one that was barely noticed. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Judith Townend, Steven Barnett, The Conversation
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
If you don’t want the Daily Mail and the Sun receive public subsidies you need to say so now – Brian Cathcart
29 08 2018
It hasn’t had much publicity, but a government process is under way whose aim is to pave the way for the delivery of public subsidies to the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Mirror and the rest of the national and corporate press. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Byline.com, Cairncross Review
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism
Germany: Removal of online hate speech in numbers – Kirsten Gollatz, Martin J Riedl and Jens Pohlmann
24 08 2018
Six months after a new German law – the Network Enforcement Act – has come into full effect, social media platforms are tasked to report on illegal hate speech. But as these figures have been made available, what can we learn from them? Researcher Kirsten Gollatz, Fellow Martin J. Riedl and Jens Pohlmann from the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) have a closer look at the reports. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Germany, Government and Policy, Internet, Social Media
Why the mainstream media should stop giving extreme views a platform – Chris Allen
4 08 2018
In recent weeks, a number of quite astounding articles have appeared in the British press. These have included among others, a Times column opining the benefit to Britain in the current climate of having a political leader like Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; referred to as “strongmen”. In the Daily Telegraph, a similarly toned piece contemplated the reinstatement of the death penalty after Brexit. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Chris Allen, The Conversation
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism, Media
DCMS “Fake News” Report: time for a new approach? – Damian Tambini
3 08 2018
Unfortunately the Fake News report was leaked by Dominic Cummings in a cynical attempt to personalise, delegitimise, and thus derail an important policy discussion. What Cummings does not relate in his blog is that the report is highly critical of him personally. Cummings is being investigated by the Parliamentary authorities for refusing to appear before the committee and his protests should be seen in this light. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Damian Tambini, LSE. Media Policy Project
Categories : Government and Policy, Journalism, Media, Social Media
