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ITV's The Hack: Policy Briefing

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Despite its extraordinary revelations about industrial-scale criminal and unethical activity, nothing has changed since the phone hacking scandal was revealed in 2012:

  1. There has been no reform in the media
  2. There is no evidence that newspapers and other media organisations are not continuing to illegally spy on people today
  3. News publishers are still not independently regulated
  4. Governments still operate in fear of the largest newspaper publishers & their owners
  5. As online readerships have grown, more people read newspaper content today than ever before

Over the last twelve years, all parties have made promise after promise to introduce independent regulation of press, after it was first recommended in the Leveson Report. Journalists, free speech campaigners and the victims of press abuse now call on the Government to keep those promises. Independent press regulation is widely supported by the public, working journalists and Parliament.

It is now the time to put the public first and deliver the free and accountable press Britain deserves.

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