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CAMPAIGNERS at Hacked Off wrote to Home Secretary Priti Patel today to demand that the government deal with the circulation of false newspaper stories among extremists online.
False stories published by mainstream newspapers are being widely shared and disseminated among neonazis and white supremacists online before any action is taken by the industry-controlled complaints-handler IPSO, according to the group’s recent report.
In sharing the stories, racist and hateful comments were often added, the report found. In one example, an explicit call to violence was included.
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression
Despite declining to show Kneecap’s set, the BBC broadcast Bob Vylan leading a ‘death to the IDF’ chant — and the resulting outrage has only amplified the very message the Establishment wanted silenced, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Home Secretary Cooper confirms plans to ban the group and claims its peaceful activists ‘meet the legal threshold under the Terrorism Act 2000’