OFCOM

Stories

• Will force people to have their faces scanned to view content on the internet.
• Apologises for ill-judged porn joke job ad.
• Fined Royal Mail £10.5million for missing delivery targets.
• Will not take action over "terribly white" comment made by Adjoa Andoh comment on ITV.
• OFCOM given right to censor social media posts in proposals put forward after UK riots.
• Tech giants will be forced to ban fake news under Keir Starmer's Labour Party plans.
• Will not investigate after Yvette Cooper was interviewed by Edward Balls on ITV's Good Morning Britain.
• Wrote an open letter to social media companies demanding they remove hate from their platforms.
• Found that Laurence Fox made misogynistic on the Dan Wootton Tonight show for stating that no self-respecting man would climb into bed with Ava Evans.
• Editor Declan Cashin demanded Rishi Sunak be impeached, that someone vandalising a Margaret Thatcher statue be given a damehood and holds strong Anti-Brexit views.
• Found GB News hosted five programmes featuring politicians acting as news presenters.
• GB News breached impartiality rules when discussing Britain becoming a cashless society.
• Royal Mail could save £650m by moving to three days a week service.
• Concluded that Maro Itoje's comments amount Buckingham Palace being "terribly white" live on ITV were not actionable because they were personal opinion.
• Will not investigate Channel 4 for election interference in an incident where Channel 4 filmed an actor participating in an undercover "sting" to try and goad Reform Party activists into making racist comments.
• Fined a company distributing pornography £1.35million, plus £50,000 for failing to respond to an information request.
• Monitoring VPN activity after introducing the Online Safety Act.
• Summoned to Washington DC with the intent to bar OFCOM from attempting to enforce the Online Safety Act in America.
• "Due" is an important qualification to the concept of impartiality. Impartiality itself means not favouring one side over another. "Due" means adequate or appropriate to the subject and nature of the programme. So ‘due impartiality’ does not mean an equal division of time has to be given to every view, or that every argument and every facet of every argument has to be represented. The approach to due impartiality may vary according to the nature of the subject, the type of programme and channel, the likely expectation of the audience as to content, and the extent to which the content andapproach is signalled to the audience.
• Fined 4chan £20k.
• OFCOM chair Michael Grade says TV has become exploitative and cruel.
• Warns TalkTV must ensure potentially offensive comments are justified.
• GB News could face sanction after breaking due-impartiality rules.

People

• Declan Cashin
• Sharon White