Nick Clegg bids to derail Paul Dacre s campaign to chair Ofcom
Facebook s PR chief leads lobbying effort against his former Fleet Street nemesis
Sir Nick Clegg has reignited hostilities with Paul Dacre by attacking the former
The former Liberal Democrat leader, now head of Facebook’s international political operation, has joined forces with Google to persuade ministers against appointing Mr Dacre, who has called for tech giants to be broken up.
The companies are understood to have lobbied against giving the job to the 72-year-old Fleet Street veteran, who has privately signalled his determination to spearhead the successful implementation of new online harms laws. These aim to hold Google and Facebook to account for child sexual abuse images, terrorist material and suicide content carried on their services.
Crucial support services return in Tameside for the first time since Covid began After shielding for a year people are finding it an absolute joy to return
Betty Topham enjoys some gardening with Billinda Dyson at Willow Wood (Image: Willow Wood)
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Crucial support services in Tameside that are seen as a lifeline by those who use them are returning for the first time since the pandemic began.
Government targets false vaccine information on social media
A new social media campaign to tackle false vaccine information shared amongst ethnic minority communities will launch today, supported by the world’s biggest social media companies.
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Trusted community figures will call for people to check before they share
Aim is to counter the spread of misleading and false information through private messaging channels on social media
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has now developed a toolkit with content designed to be shared via Whatsapp and Facebook community groups, as well as Twitter, Youtube and Instagram, to tackle false information spread through private channels.
New campaign will help tackle vaccine misinformation online through a series of shareable videos Trusted community figures will call for people to check.
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SIR – For many years, a Conservative majority has not resulted in Conservative governments.
Successive Conservative and Labour prime ministers, from John Major to the present incumbent, could have sat happily in each other’s Cabinets. With a couple of exceptions, no one in Boris Johnson’s Cabinet would have earned a place in Margaret Thatcher’s.
Consensus policies of state intervention, high taxation and wasteful public spending have characterised the last 30 years. Conservative values – a small state, low taxes, individual freedom and enterprise – have been honoured in the breach rather than the observance.
Now that Brexit has happened, we need a centre-Right government that will seize the opportunities to trade freely, and encourage private enterprise to stimulate the economic growth required to repair the social, economic and mental damage inflicted by repeated lockdowns. MPs have been sidelined as ministers govern by decree. Voters backed Tory