The Online Safety Bill fails to protect journalistic freedom of speech as it risks letting tech giants use automated algorithms to accidentally take down reporting, a parliamentary report has warned.

The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee also claimed that the draft bill was  a “missed opportunity” to properly solve an array of online issues, including the abuse faced by journalists online.

The report’s findings were met with agreement from the Society of Editors who said that the government’s proposals failed to account for the “fast nature of today’s news process”.