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Lord Young of Acton, the founder of the Free Speech Union, said Labour’s threat to fine social media firms should be seen in the light of US pressure. He said: “This feels performative to me. An attempt to reassure JD Vance that the British Government takes free speech seriously. In reality, the free speech duties under the Act are a joke and the chances of Ofcom fining a social media firm for failing to comply with them are vanishing to zero.”
Lord Young said that the legislation included powers to compel certain platforms not to remove content that was journalistic or of democratic importance.
Nick Gutteridge and James Titcomb, The Telegraph, 9th August 2025.
