Earlier this summer, some of the world’s biggest tech, product and branding companies (including Google, Facebook, Unilever and Procter & Gamble) launched The Global Alliance for Responsible Media. This self-described ‘unprecedented’ alliance aims to tackle ‘dangerous, hateful, disruptive and fake content online’ which it says, if left unchecked, ‘risks threatening our global community’. Read the rest of this entry »
How social media companies are tackling anti-vaccination misinformation – Emma Goodman
19 08 2019
It’s not the only health issue to be subject to misinformation online, but the prevalence of anti-vaccination content on social media is causing great concern among public health officials, politicians and more. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Emma Goodman, LSE Media Policy Project Blog
Categories : Media Regulation, Social Media
Revenge pornography and online hate content: the evidence underpinning calls for regulating online harms in the UK – Julia Davidson and Sonia Livingstone
4 07 2019
The UK Government’s Online Harms White Paper includes a much-discussed Table (p.31) on the online harms in scope of the proposed regulation. This distinguishes “Harms with a clear definition” from “Harms with a less clear definition” and “Underage exposure to legal content.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Academic, Internet, Social Media
Break up big tech? Make it fairer? Sure, but let’s support our right to refuse what technology companies offer us – Seeta Peña Gangadharan
30 06 2019
With billions of people now members of social media networks such as Facebook and the all-pervasiveness of big tech throughout many aspects of our lives, conversations about digital citizenship have never been more important. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: LSE Media Policy Project Blog, Seeta Peña Gangadharan
Categories : Internet, Social Media
Putting children at the centre: is re-designing the digital environment possible? – Mariya Stoilova and Sonia Livingstone
23 06 2019
Children (and adults alike) seem to be ‘playing tag’ with a sophisticated and fast-changing digital environment whose privacy parameters are hard to define and consequences even harder to predict. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Children's Rights, ICO, LSE Media Policy Project Blog, Mariya Stoilova, Sonia Livingstone
Categories : Data Protection, Government and Policy
Keeping consumers safe online: regulation of online platforms – Mark Bunting
8 03 2019
A Government white paper from DCMS and the Home Office on internet safety is anticipated in the coming weeks, and is expected to propose a plan for regulation of online platforms. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Internet, Media Regulation, Social Media
Why talking about ‘disinformation’ misses the point when considering radical right ‘alternative’ media – Julia Rone
9 01 2019
In light of the upcoming European Parliament elections, the European Commission published its Action Plan against Disinformation last month, aimed at protecting EU’s “democratic systems and public debates”. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Fake News, Julia Rone, LSE Media Policy Project Blog
Categories : Journalism, Media
Will veiled threats from the EU tackle the disinformation problem or can the UK get tough alone? – Damian Tambini
23 03 2018
The EC high level group on ‘fake news’ has done what it was asked to do: it has set out a problem definition and mapped out some policy principles and broad recommendations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Damian Tambini, Fake News, LSE Media Policy Project Blog
Categories : EU, Media
2018 will be the year in which liberal democracies begin to confront misinformation – Damian Tambini
9 01 2018
2018 will be the year in which liberal democracies are forced to confront misinformation, predicts Damian Tambini. Emmanuel Macron has already proposed a crackdown on fake news during election campaigns. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Media, Social Media
Press regulation: three reasons why a 30 year old campaign must continue – Steven Barnett
19 01 2017
With the government’s consultation on whether to proceed with the section 40 cost-shifting incentives of the Leveson framework now closed, there will be a brief political pause. Neither that consultation nor the intense political manoeuvring that is likely to follow should distract us from the long-standing and urgent need to tackle reform of press regulation in order to protect both the public and public interest journalism. Read the rest of this entry »
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Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
