Also, a Report Today suggests the current system of Uk Press Self Regulation Isnt working for people who arent celebrities and royalty. Well talk to the mums of Caroline Flack and Anisha Vidal garner, who say their privacy has been invaded by newspapers. Welcome to newsnight with your weeknightly interviews and insight. Here tonight, Labour Member of the House Of Lords lord wood, a former foreign Policy Adviser to prime minister Gordon Brown, and Chief Adviser to former Labour Leader Ed miliband. He is plugged into the current pms views on what a closer relationship with the eu actually means. Luke tryll is Uk Director of the pollsters more in common. Hell talk to us about the latest public attitudes on brexit. Also with us, anita boateng, who was a tory Special Adviser through the brexit years, and nick watt, our political editor. Nick, what does Keir Starmer want . What was he trying to do today . Right now, he is in paris for the paralympic opening ceremony. Tomorrow, he will beat E
that prompted him to respond. and just tell us exactly what he has been saying in response. last night on his tv show been saying in response. last night on his tv show he been saying in response. last night on his tv show he dedicated - been saying in response. last night on his tv show he dedicated the i on his tv show he dedicated the first six minutes of the programme to an emotional response. he said he was a victim of a smear campaign, that there was dark forces at work to try and take down gb news. he denied any criminal behaviour. he did say that like many people and all fallible humans as he put it, had made errors ofjudgment in the past. he didn t go into what they were but he denied they had been any criminality. the mail 0nline and the sun newspaper have both said they are looking into these investigations or allegations and gb news has not commented but it is running with the story front and centre on its website with dan
british media. he made his name at the news of the world newspaper and the news of the world newspaper and the sun where he had a showbiz column but since he moved to be a presenter on gb news television he styled himself as it sharp tongued champion of anti wilderness. he is also a columnist for the mail 0nline newspaper. but in recent weeks they have been a series of allegations that first appeared on social media basically alleging he had been using fake online identities and promises of money to persuade people to film themselves in compromising sexual situations. they were online rumours but this week an online publication called byline times published that of what it says is a three year investigation into dan wootton and that prompted him to respond. find that prompted him to respond. and ust tell us
no, i think what we ve seen in the last few years, rightly, is governments around the world wanting to put in place rules of the road for technology. and it s become so important. you ve seen that through the pandemic, you know, the tech celeration. it s part of everyday life for everyone. and, of course, what they want to do is understand what the technology can do. how do we make sure that technology is harnessed for good and we fight the bad? and part of myjob is to explain those things to policymakers as they work on those new bills. and what we try to do is be in a position where they want to hear from us because we ve got expertise, but we don t expect the rules that have already written in the way that we would like. and we ve got some big new bills at the moment in europe, the digital services act, which is all about the responsibilities of platforms and in the uk, the 0nline safety bill, which is even broader than the european bill and covers a lot of areas of responsibility.
how do you decide what is and isn t allowed? it s a free speech world, but is that harmful? so we worked with 150 expert agencies. europol, the home office, institute for strategic dialogue and so on, to come up with some policies to define that. we then trained people to classify videos, and then when they could do it accurately, we trained machines and now we report on how effective that policy is. and i can tell you that 90% of videos that violate that policy never are seen by a single human. so we can do that in the context of a legal framework, but then codes of practice and transparency with regulators. and i think that s the way forward with 0nline safety bill. set some clear responsibilities, but then you need to develop policies which will change over time. so would you say the system is working at the moment in terms of protecting people? no, because i think that s, we ve done that ourselves, but that s not consistently a standard across the different tech platforms. and we s