Apr 9, 2018 | ILPC Research and Publications, Internet regulation, News media
Guest post by Dr Judith Townend. This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in Communications Law journal, volume 23, issue 1 (Bloomsbury Professional) and PA Media Lawyer. In 2012 Mr Justice Tugendhat, ahead of his retirement in 2014, made a plea...
Apr 9, 2018 | Ethics, Fake news
This post is re-posted from the LSE Media Policy Project Blog. As part of a series of interviews with LSE Faculty on themes related to the Truth, Trust and Technology Commission, Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi talks to LSE MSc student Ariel Riera on ‘echo chambers’ in the context...
Mar 16, 2018 | Fake news, Freedom of information
This post brings us some recent developments on freedom expression from Dr David Goldberg, Senior Visiting Fellow, Institute of Computer and Communications Law in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, and member of the Information...
Feb 6, 2018 | Access to information, Fake news, Freedom of information, Government policy
In this guest post, Dan Lomas, Programme Leader, MA Intelligence and Security Studies, University of Salford, explores the British government’s new ‘anti-fake news’ unit. The decision to set up a new National Security Communications Unit to counter...
Sep 13, 2017 | Freedom of expression, Internet regulation, News media, Social Media
Readers of the Information and Law Policy Centre blog are invited to submit a call for papers for the Global Fake News and Defamation Symposium on the theme of ‘Fake News and Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives’ Concept Note: The notion of “fake...