Media

  The European Commission (EC) have confirmed that they raided UK offices of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox Inc as part of an investigation into "companies involved may have violated EU antitrust rules that prohibit cartels and restrictive business practices.” The raid could not come at a worse time for the Murdoch group which for a long time has been trying to take over European broadcaster Sky Plc. Bloomberg report that the media mogul “has offered to spin off Sky...

Tory Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg is joining LBC to host a live phone-in as part of the new spring schedule. The prominent politician will take calls every other week for a 30-minute phone-in during Nick Ferrari at Breakfast. He joins Nigel Farage and Theresa May's PR man Tom Swarbrick on the books at the broadcaster, with "no topics off limit" according to an official statement. Rees-Mogg said: “I am greatly looking forward to conversing with LBC’s listeners every fortnight. "In the programmes I have...

Commenters on Guido Fawkes have been accused of being so racist they create their own language to be antisemitic and get past the algorithms. Last night after right wing blog Guido Fawkes published a secret recording of a private Passover seder ceremony that Jeremy Corbyn attended to attack all those present for supporting the Labour leader, eagle eyed people started questioning some of the comments on the blog. While the Jewdas organisation that the blog describes as "radical" has a history of...

The Daily Express has been accused of making the Cliffs of Dover whiter in their nationalist front-page splash to mark the one year countdown to Brexit. Photographer Justin Foulkes, who took the original photo of the cliffs, highlighted the difference in a tweet today. In his image the cliffs are noticeably greener. But the dark shades seem to have been touched out of the version used in The Express, which was overlaid with a Boris Johnson quote just one day...

The Sun has issued a retraction of an article it published at the end of February which listed potential savings British shoppers would see on goods once European Union tariffs are removed after Brexit. The "Vote for bargans" was even cited by Jacob Rees-Mogg who claimed it showed the "huge savings for us all outside the customs union". But the red top has since admitted it made an “honest mistake” in the article after making calculations based on applied tariff costs to...

An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses of the company were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers. The murky world of big data and using social media to spread political messages to millions of people, raises more questions on the ethics and safety of the on-line world. Cambridge Analytica has been accused of using the personal data of 50 million Facebook members to...

Facebook has removed the pages of the anti-Islamic group Britain First and its leaders. The social media company said the group had repeatedly violated its community standards. London's mayor, Sadiq Khan has also issued a statement. He said: "Britain First is a vile and hate-fuelled group. "Their sick intentions to incite hatred within our society via social media are reprehensible, and Facebook's decision to remove their content is welcome." Matthew Collins, head of research, HOPE not hate, said: “HOPE not...

The Sunday Times has been accused of employing a former actor to carry out the longest-running, most organised and grossly invasive spying operation in Fleet Street’s history, a Byline investigation has revealed. John Ford was paid up to £40,000 per year by Rupert Murdoch's flagship Sunday broadsheet to obtain phone bills, recover ex-directory phone numbers and penetrate private financial material, such as banking and mortgage data. Ford admits that several email accounts were successfully hacked, each of which were done "to order" on the...

A newspaper in a city with prominent links to slavery has issued an apology after running a controversial front page more than two decades ago. The Bristol Post's 1996 splash - headlined 'Faces of Evil' - includes 16 mugshots of black men jailed for dealing crack cocaine in the city. Editor Mike Norton said the report "ostracised a large section" of Bristol's African and Afro-Caribbean community "with its black faces ranged in rows like slaves held in cages". The Bristol...