Ofcom Spreads Misinformation Over Its Own Misinformation Committee – Guido Fawkes

Ofcom Spreads Misinformation Over Its Own Misinformation Committee

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A new fail just dropped from the struggling regulators over at Ofcom, as Guido can reveal it has failed to establish its ‘Advisory Committee on Disinformation and Misinformation’ as required by the much-maligned 2023 Online Safety Act. Hope they didn’t publish any commitments to do so…

Oops. Ofcom announced the Committee’s formation almost six months ago and confirmed, on record, that it “will be established by the end of 2024.” A reminder that the parliamentary definition of “misinformation” is “the inadvertent spread of false information”…

Applications to join the committee closed in early January 2025 (unfortunately, Guido missed the deadline). Now, almost five months on from “the end of 2024”, the tumbleweeds continue to roll down the deserted corridors at Ofcom, which continues to state on its website: “TBC – we are currently in the process of establishing the Committee” and that “a recruitment process is currently underway.” Someone should really regulate this kind of thing…