🚨 THE GOVERNMENT IS TAKING US FOR MUGS ONCE AGAIN.
Britain is rapidly becoming the North Korea of the North Sea — and once again, the Government is taking us for mugs.
This Government’s weird obsession with “misinformation” — which it is shamelessly weaponising — knows no bounds.
Under its new media green paper, the Government plans to place social media platforms under a legal obligation to promote state-approved “trustworthy” news sources, such as the BBC, while demoting more critical outlets like GB News and independent journalists.
The US is rightly fed up with the Government’s abject disregard for free speech — both online and offline. Last week, UK officials were hauled into the US Embassy in London and reprimanded over Labour’s pursuit of even greater online censorship.
US officials warned that Washington would view this as a form of censorship, and that it could provide a blueprint for future authoritarian governments seeking to clamp down on free speech and freedom of the press.
This obsession with so-called “misinformation” is based on sand. The Government claims that social media platforms promote misinformation for profit, basing this assertion on a single academic paper from a low-ranking university in Indonesia, while conveniently ignoring research showing that misinformation is not the massive threat it claims.
The Government had a predetermined view of what it wanted the research to show, so it ignored world-leading academics.
If Lisa Nandy, the Culture Secretary, is so concerned about the threat of misinformation, why did she flounce off X in a huff rather than stay and challenge it through more debate?
Watch FSU Campaigns Officer
@MaxHThompson and read
@DavidRoseUK’s briefing below 👇