‘Under Attack’ — UK Media Regulator Claims Farage Network GB News Broke ‘Impartiality’ Rules
Ofcom found that insurgent television channel GB News violated broadcasting rules over episodes hosted by Conservative Members of Parliament.
Ofcom found that insurgent television channel GB News violated broadcasting rules over episodes hosted by Conservative Members of Parliament.
Ofcom, the UK’s broadcasting regulator has been hiring top staff from Big Tech firms as it prepares to enforce the Online Safety Act.
Laurence Fox has been suspended from GB News over personal remarks about a woke female journalist during a discussion on male suicide.
Broadcaster ITV received a record number of complaints over Queen Charlotte actress branding the Royal Family as “terribly white”.
Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has said it would exit the United Kingdom if a major piece of internet regulation set to be passed in the country compromises its ability to offer end-to-end encryption to its users.
Veteran conservative presenter Mark Steyn has quit GB News over alleged demands that he personally pay for broadcasting fines in Britain.
Ofcom announced that “with immediate effect” Russia’s state-funded news channel RT will have its licence to broadcast in Britain revoked.
A further tightening of criminal restrictions on online speech is being looked at by the UK’s Conservative Party government.
Nigel Farage has hailed as a “victory for free speech” the British broadcasting regulator clearing TV show host Piers Morgan for criticising Meghan Markle and saying he did not believe the Duchess of Sussex was telling the truth when she accused the Royal Family of neglecting her mental health and that a family member was racist.
Streaming services such as Netflix will be policed by Britain’s broadcasting regulator in a bid to level the playing field for the BBC.
A loophole could result in Chinese Communist propaganda returning to British airwaves, despite the UK’s broadcasting regulator banning China Global Television Network (CGTN) for breaching rules on airing state-run news.
Boris Johnson’s Culture Secretary has stated that social media firms will be mandated by the government to remove content that would be “illegal on the street” as a part of the upcoming Online Safety Bill.
The Chinese state-owned broadcaster CGTN has been fined £225,000 by Britain’s media regulator for its apparent bias in coverage of the pro-democracy Hong Kong protest movement and for airing alleged forced confessions on its airwaves.
BEIJING (AP) – The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has threatened to retaliate against the United Kingdom after Britain’s broadcasting regulator, Ofcom, revoked the network licence for the state-owned propaganda outlet China Global Television Network (CGTN). Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin accused the
Britain is becoming a “totalitarian woke state” according to a former leader of the Conservative Party, as the UK’s broadcasting regulator has expanded its definition of hate speech to include transgender intolerance and ‘political or any other opinion’. There are
Google-owned YouTube reinstated the blacklisted account of Rupert Murdoch-owned talkRADIO, hours after the faced accusations of censorship.
YouTube has deleted talkRADIO from the platform, with some speculating this follows the broadcaster taking a critical stance on lockdowns.
BBC anchor Emily Maitlis has not apologised for a rant against Dominic Cummings which the broadcaster admits broke the rules on impartiality.
A Chinese Communist Party (CCP) state-owned television network is facing heavy fines and a possible banning from the United Kingdom over its biased portrayal of the pro-democracy Hong Kong protests.
The UK Government will police “harmful” content online including “extreme pornography”, “trolling” and the spreading of “disinformation”.
Relected British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set his sights on the publicly funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), promising a slew of changes in the mechanisms that previously guaranteed the broadcaster immunity from fiscal accountability.
Broadcasting regulator Ofcom is investigating Channel 4 coverage of a protest against the Government cancelling Brexit day on March 29th, in which veteran broadcaster Jon Snow exclaimed, “I’ve never seen so many white people in one place!”
An Indian “hate preacher” who has called on Muslims to be terrorists is broadcasting his “personal” TV channel to millions of UK homes, despite being banned from the country.
White people and heterosexuals are underrepresented in the British television industry, an Ofcom audit has found — but the watchdog still insists there is “much more to do on diversity”.
Television advertisements paid for by Saudi Arabia promoting the Islamist dictatorship’s “reform” programme should not have been aired in the UK, the regulator has said.
Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has tasked Ofcom with investigating whether Trinity Mirror’s takeover of the Express could impact on editorial decision making at the right-wing tabloid.
In the U.S. – thanks largely to Donald Trump – the skeptics are winning the climate argument.
A Muslim radio station that broadcast a chant glorifying their “warlike” prophet Muhammad, and encouraged the beheading of “lowlifes” and murder of “filthy” non-Muslims, has been fined £2,000 by the regulator for “hate speech”.
A family-run television channel specialising in vintage British programmes is in trouble after the regulator ruled its broadcasting of a World War II drama unacceptably ‘racist’.
A Muslim radio station, which ordered listeners to give the advice of non-Muslim doctors “no importance”, has been found in breach of Ofcom rules.
A Sheffield-based Muslim radio station has had its license revoked for broadcasting more than 25 hours of sermons “encouraging and condoning” violence against non-Muslims.
A Sheffield-based Muslim radio station has had its license suspended after broadcasting 25 hours of sermons “encouraging and condoning” violence against non-Muslims. Ofcom investigated Iman FM after a complaint that the radio station had, during Ramadan, aired lectures by Anwar
British communications regulator Ofcom warns that your Wi-Fi may be slowed down by Christmas lights this year, following the release of its new app that checks home broadband strengths and weaknesses.
Despite being forced out of the BBC, open season on Jeremy Clarkson rolls on. The Traveller Movement has become the latest offence taker to bring a litigious grievance against one of the television presenter’s jokes. Ofcom, however, have ruled that his use of the
Britain’s Home Secretary Theresa May planned to switch the UK’s broadcasting regulator into a pre-broadcast censor, according to a leaked memo published today by the Guardian. Ms. May, who is one of the favourites to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron as
The controversial Channel 4 programme ‘UKIP: The First 100 Days’ appears to have spectacularly backfired on the broadcaster as regulator Ofcom reveals it has had over two thousand complaints since the programme was aired on Monday evening. The “mockumentary”, screened while the
The increasingly controversial BBC license fee is no longer seen as good value for money by almost a half of people questioned, a poll has found. 44 per cent of people who responded to a YouGov poll for The Times