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November 29, 2018updated 30 Sep 2022 7:11am

Guardian says Facebook overdue ‘regulatory reckoning’ in push for social network to be recognised as media company

By James Walker

The Guardian has pushed for Facebook to be regulated as a media company, arguing that the social network is “long overdue a regulatory reckoning”.

In a leader column today, the newspaper said it supported broadcast regulator Ofcom’s suggestion that all social media should face regulation.

It used the News of the World phone-hacking scandal to claim that “undue dominance of the media always poses a potential threat”

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