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Labour MP and UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says she is minded to intervene in Sky's £1.6bn takeover of ITV's media and entertainment arm. ITV and Sky have until 20 October to respond with reassurances on on-demand programming and news.
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Independent Football Regulator chief David Kogan says he will resign if ministers interfere with any sanction on Manchester City's owners. He is also ready to ask government for extra money if Abu Dhabi launches a legal challenge.
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Lisa Nandy has added vulnerable telecare users to the review of BT's £400m debt-free purchase of TalkTalk out of administration. Once the competition watchdog reports, she can weigh alarm safety and critical networks against BT's bigger market share.
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Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says the UK's under-16 social media ban, due in March, is only a staging post toward a more interventionist state. Platforms preparing for that deadline are building for a first tranche, with more promised by the minister now in charge.
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Lisa Nandy told MPs that the two firms' proposals do not meet the scale of the crisis. The draft law would also reach providers of apps used by children, turning on-device image classification into a compliance job for them too.
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Meta's second action against Ofcom this year disputes the categorisation that attaches extra transparency, user-control and fraud-advertising duties to two of its services. Ofcom's online safety director told peers the regulator is operating in a highly litigious environment.
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Talks with Apple and Google since June produced progress the government calls insufficient, so ministers will write device-level blocks into law. There is no bill text yet, and that is the part product teams have to plan around.
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The government spent three months getting Apple and Google to draft roadmaps for stopping children taking and sharing nude images on phones, then judged the commitments too small and reached for primary legislation instead.
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