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Society of Editors: Retract your damaging & false dismissal of any racism in the press

Hacked Off and anti-racism NGOs call on the Society of Editors to retract its dismissal of racism in the press.

10/3/21

Hacked Off and anti-racism NGOs call for Society of Editors retraction

Hacked Off and anti-racism NGOs write to the Society of Editors asking it to retract its claim that the press is not racist.

9/3/21

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Summary judgment issued in Duchess of Sussex v The Mail (Associated Newspapers)

Hacked Off's Nathan Sparkes comments on the summary judgment in the Duchess of Sussex's privacy and copyright claims against Associated Newspapers.

11/2/21

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IPSO "Rebuttal" of Covid-19 report

Hacked Off launches a response to IPSO's 'rebuttal' of its Fake News Ferret report, which identified 55 examples of distorted Covid-19 coverage.

3/2/21

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IPSO responds to The Fake News Ferret report on Covid-19 discrimination

Hacked Off Policy Director Nathan Sparkes rejects IPSO's claim that evidence for The Fake News Ferret report was not public, noting the appendix is linked.

27/1/21

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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.

Hacked Off report identifies 55 fake news stories about Covid-19 in national newspapers in 2020; IPSO upheld no complaint on any of them.

18/1/21

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Hacked Off: Government’s Online Harms proposals “hopelessly weak and manifestly inadequate”

Hacked Off criticises the Government's Online Harms response for effectively exempting newspaper comment sections from the proposed regulatory regime.

15/12/20

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