Online Safety

Hacked Off analysis: Russell Brand’s Rumble channel may benefit from press loophole in Online Safety Bill

02/10/2023

Press loophole in the Online Safety Bill could be exploited by Russell Brand and other Rumble users, Hacked Off analysis shows

02/10/2023

Twitter to be banned from removing content from Russia Today and extremist websites without giving them a right of appeal, as Government folds to pressure from press barons

07/07/2022

Newspapers leap to defence of "extremists' loophole" in the Online Safety Bill, as Government plans to protect the press from accountability unravel

15/06/2022

Hacked Off demand changes to Online Safety Bill's media exemption, as Government indicates u-turn on foreign disinformation

05/07/2022

Hacked Off: Russia Today Online Safety exemption "a threat to the interests & safety of the British public"

29/03/2022

Russia Today set to benefit from press exemption to the Government’s Online Safety Bill

29/03/2022

The Online Safety Bill: Riddled with dangerous loopholes

23/03/2022

Online Safety Bill: Government plans to regulate YOUR Twitter account more than the Daily Mail’s

17/03/2022

The Joint Committee Report on the Online Safety Bill: Incoherent on the media

16/12/2021

Julian Petley: A Thoroughly Unsafe Bill

Online safety and the press: the public shafted again

13/05/2021

Loophole in Online Safety Bill would create “safe havens for those responsible for racism, hate and abuse online”

12/05/2021

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

15/12/2020

Hacked Off write to Home Secretary demanding tougher action to protect the public from extremism

03/11/2020

How white supremacists use national newspaper stories as their own propaganda

05/11/2020

White supremacism, the press and the absence of regulation

27/10/2020

FAKE NEWS: Hacked Off report exposes neo-Nazis’ dissemination of newspapers’ false stories

09/10/2020

Hacked Off: The Sun found to be hosting antisemitic content, IPSO fails to act

30/07/2020

Guest post: Tactical Tech - The Data Detox Kit

07/08/2020

New Hacked Off report: Fake news and racism in the Wild West of newspaper comment sections

15/07/2020

Racism and fake news in the Wild West of newspaper comment sections

13/07/2020

Hacked Off report exposes racism and fake news in newspaper comment sections

15/07/2020

Hacked Off finds reader comments on The Sun website were broadcasting 5G “fake news”/disinformation for at least two weeks

13/05/2020

Hacked Off: Government plan to regulate your nan’s Facebook more stringently than the Mail Online branded utterly absurd

14/05/2020

The fake news continues!

30/04/2020

Covid-19 and false 5G conspiracies

16/04/2020

INFLECTION POINT: Hacked Off analysis of media coverage of the Christchurch Attacks

01/05/2019

Press Release: Hacked Off analysis of media coverage of the Christchurch Attacks

02/05/2019

Hacked Off condemn role of some newspaper websites in publishing footage of New Zealand terror attack

21/03/2019

Platforms fuelling far-right violence: the crux of the matter

04/04/2019

Are unregulated platforms a threat to our national security?

21/03/2019

Spread of disinformation and fake news a threat to UK democracy, says report

18/02/2019