News groups ‘need to do more’ to help women journalists facing online harassment for doing their jobs, study finds
News organisations “need to do more” to help female journalists who encounter online harassment as they do their jobs, a…
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Culture Secretary Matt Hancock tells MPs he would consider legislation cracking down on hate speech on social media
Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has said he would consider increasing legislation or adding warning labels to social media platforms to…
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MPs’ US trip to meet Google, Facebook and Twitter as part of fake news inquiry cost taxpayer £84,000
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Select Committee’s visit to the US last month as part of its inquiry…
By False news spreads ‘significantly’ further and faster than the truth on social media, new landmark study finds
A landmark study of some 126,000 Twitter posts has found that false news on social media spreads “significantly” further and…
By Twitter finds 49 accounts linked to Russian ‘troll factory’ that tweeted about Brexit during vote campaign, MPs told
Twitter has found 49 accounts linked to a notorious Russian “troll factory” which were sending out messages about the Brexit…
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Mail Online’s use of ‘push him’ suicide tweet in report did not breach man’s privacy, IPSO rules
A man whose tweet saying a suicidal man should be pushed off a motorway bridge was published by Mail Online…
By Twitter criticised for failing to give ‘straight answers’ to UK fake news inquiry
Twitter has been criticised for failing to give “straight answers” to the parliamentary probe into alleged Russian interference in the…
By ‘Inoculating’ social media users against ‘fake news’ will help filter it out, MPs told
The best way to fight so-called fake news is by “inoculating” social media users against online propaganda, MPs have been…
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