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On 30 January 2024 the Media Bill (the Bill) passed its third reading in the House of Commons, having been introduced to parliament in November 2023. The Bill is aimed at protecting Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) such as the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV and S4C from unfair competition from less regulated streaming services and online providers. It will be considered by the House of Lords inthe remaining stages before it can become law by receiving Royal Assent later this year, after which the regulator Ofcom will consult about implementing the legislative changes. The Bill reduces...

The GB News programme "The Live Desk" promoted the broadcaster’s campaign called "Don’t Kill Cash" to promote the use of cash. Ofcom considered that the campaign was addressing an issue of political controversy and related to current public policy. The GB News campaign breached Rule 5.4 of Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code which requires licensees to exclude all expressions of the views and opinions of the person providing the service. Further, GB News breached rule 5.5 requiring a broadcaster to preserve due impartiality on matters of political or industrial controversy...

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...