Monday, 23 October 2017
OMBUDSMAN Guardian's self-regulation outside IPSO
Tuesday, 10 October 2017
FUTURE WEB 2.0 Facebook Google to be declared publishers?
The newspaper industry have been campaigning for this for some time - but I wouldn't hold your breath; Facebook alone has 1 of the biggest lobbying teams/spend of any global corporation (and boosted it significantly as soon as the Capita/election influence scandal hit hard in March/April 2018).
Guardian: Ofcom chair raises prospect of regulation for Google and Facebook.
UPDATE: The Culture Minister - in the same week he fiercely opposed Leveson2 and tougher press regulation (but actually seems to have proposed statutory regulation by the back door...), he's announced plans for new legislation to regulate social media, including a levy to pay for more monitoring.
UK government plans new legislation to tame internet's 'wild west'
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/19/uk-government-plans-new-laws-tackle-internet-wild-west?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard