Media

UK publishers have been criticised for showing live stream footage of the New Zealand terror attack in spite of efforts to moderate its use online. A gunman filmed himself moving through the interior of a mosque today and shooting at his victims indiscriminately, with the footage streamed live on Facebook. But despite best efforts to remove the disturbing video off major platforms, UK publications have used clips in their reporting of the event. The MailOnline’s homepage splash is an animated GIF...

Remember Tory arch Brexiteer and trouble-maker Mark Francois? Many accused the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford of racism when he reacted to Airbus CEO Tom Enders warning about the implications of a no-deal Brexit for the aerospace firm's UK operations by snapping: “Mr Enders’ intervention is a classic example of the sort of Teutonic arrogance, which is one of the reasons why many people voted to leave the European Union.” Today the MP was involved in another race row live...

James O'Brien said "we live in a country that is utterly upside down" after a spate of Tory Islamaphobia cases went largely unreported in the media. Fourteen members of the Conservative Party have been suspended this week over Islamophobic comments made on Facebook, and last night Baroness Warsi, the Conservative Party’s first female Muslim minister, called for an independent inquiry into "institutional" Islamophobia in the party. The Muslim Council of Britain previously attacked the party for being unable to deal with...

A Tory council leader has been suspended from the party for retweeting a post supporting Tommy Robinson. Andrew Bowles, Swale Borough Council leader, retweeted the post which included an image of Tommy Robinson's head superimposed on Mel Gibson's on The Patriot film cover and called Tommy Robinson a 'patriot'. He appeared to support Robinson over his ban from a number of social media platforms. The tweet read: "I knew this would happen...@SkyNews now reporting Tommy Robinson banned from Instagram and Facebook...this comes directly...

Following last week’s announcement that YouTube would be disabling the comments function on videos of children in an effort to keep younger users of the platform safe from predators, the NSPCC has reported that the use of social media for grooming children has increased sharply. Using freedom of information data obtained from 39 of the 43 police forces in England and Wales, the charity revealed that 5,161 reports of sexual communications with a child were recorded over the 18 month...

Tommy Robinson banned from Facebook and Instagram. Under the ban, his official Facebook page will be deleted. He will be preemptively barred from any future attempts to log into the social media platform. Robinson is already barred from using Twitter. So after today's ban he will only have YouTube as the only major online platform for him to reach a large audience. His official Facebook page had more than 1 million followers and likes. Nick Lowles, chief executive of HOPE...

North Somerset Council told Bridget Smith that the graffiti art is "illegal advertising"

The ad for Vivo Clinic Bristol, which featured a "frivolous" scene from TV show The Housewives of Cheshire, was found to break several rules including ones regarding social responsibility

A camera is almost knocked to the ground to the ground while filming at Trump's "Finish the Wall" rally in El Paso, Texas. The BBC’s Washington correspondent Gary O’Donoghue said his colleague Ron Skeans was “fine” despite the “incredibly violent attack”. A BBC spokeswoman said Skeans was “violently pushed and shoved by a member of the crowd” as he covered the rally. “The man was removed by security and Ron is fine. The president could see the incident and checked...