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Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator, released a comprehensive study examining viewers’ attitudes to violent and sexual content on TV and their expectations about content they watch on linear and on-demand services. Conducted as part of Ofcom’s ongoing efforts to discern evolving viewer attitudes towards harm and offences, as well as preferences and tolerances among viewers, this latest study was designed to enhance the regulator’s understanding of viewers’ experiences with audiovisual content and the various factors that shape their standards of acceptability. 1....

An Ofcom investigation has concluded that an episode of Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil, which aired on GB News on 11 March 2023, breached due impartiality rules. Saturday Morning with Esther and Phil is a weekly two-hour discussion programme presented by Esther McVey and Philip Davies, two sitting Conservative Party Members of Parliament (MPs).This particular programme featured a pre-recorded interview between the two presenters and the finance minister, Jeremy Hunt MP. The interview focused on the government’s approach to economic and fiscal policies ahead of the...

On 6 October 2023, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator, issued a preliminary enforcement notice against Snap Inc. and Snap Group Limited over “a potential failure to assess the privacy risks posed by its generative AI chatbot ’My AI.’” The ICO’s investigation provisionally found that Snap “failed to adequately identify and assess the risks to several million ‘My AI’ users in the UK,” including children between the ages of 13 and 17. This preliminary enforcement notice follows the...

On 19 September 2023, the UK’s long-debated Online Safety Bill (OSB) received Parliamentary approval and will soon achieve Royal Assent, clearing the way for it to become law. This new legislation represents a seminal milestone in digital and technological policy formulation in the UK’s post-Brexit era. It will introduce a new regulatory regime for online platforms and search engines which target the UK, imposing a set of obligations on in-scope services with consequences for non-compliance. Main objectives The Bill, which has become the subject of intense discussion and scrutiny,...

The BBC commissioned a report on diversity, which was produced by MTM, an independent research agency. On 3 May 2022, a Freedom of Information Act request was made by William Turvill, asking for the costs incurred by the BBC for this report. The BBC considered that the information was commercially sensitive and refused to disclose the details pursuant to section 43(2) Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Section 43(2) FOIA provides that: “Information is exempt information if its disclosure under this Act would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of any person...