UK report says online news should be regulated
A UK government report says that regulation is needed to ensure the reliability of news content distributed by Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple. The Cairncross Review: A Sustainable Future states that ‘This task is too important to leave entirely to the judgment of commercial entities’. The reviewers were asked to ‘consider the sustainability of the production and distribution of high-quality journalism, and especially the future of the press, in this dramatically changing market’ and also ‘looked at the overall state of the news media market, the threats to the financial sustainability of publishers, the impact of search engines and social media platforms, and the role of digital advertising’.
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