My own experience when I was a minister showed two institutions which really didn’t care very much what we thought: the Chinese government, and Google.
A small community radio station with a few thousand listeners requires a license, but a social media channel with millions of individual subscribers does not.
The trust factor is simply less relevant, because fewer people are accessing the Corporation’s output in the first place.
It will mean woke bureaucrats censoring Tory activists, undermining entrepreneurs, and threatening our free press. Time to drop it once and for all.
The Prime Minister’s Brexit night message should have been broadcast on BBC and ITN.
I’ve been nervous after last time – but here goes. Plus: Farage is having a dreadful campaign. And why election night TV will never be the same again.
Last night’s policy announcement live on Facebook was a first experiment in new ways for the Government to communicate its message.
We must not repeat the mistakes of 2017 in trying to fatten the digital pig on market day.
Fleet Street, normally a justified sceptic of men from the ministry controlling what people publish, is an enthusiast of regulating social media giants.
The Culture Secretary says he hopes to be talking directly to Mark Zuckerberg.
They should eschew the fire-and-forget approach which gave us the Electoral Commission.
If we do not update the rules governing our elections and referendums, their credibility faces a perfect storm of threats.
Stop playing the Left’s game of taking offence and accusing people of -isms and -phobias. Instead, show some character and discuss real issues.
Cameron and Osborne spent £9 million promoting Remain in 2016. Now May appears to be pursuing the same tactic.
Social media providers should be required to present UK consumers with an ongoing, highly visible, simple, unavoidable choice over its use.