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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.
IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the difficulties surrounding freedom of expression