{"id":700865,"date":"2026-06-22T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=700865"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:12:57","slug":"uk-government-plans-to-force-social-media-giants-to-boost-bbc-content-to-fight-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=700865","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Plans To Force Social Media Giants To Boost BBC Content To &#8216;Fight Disinformation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK government, under the apparently outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is advancing proposals that would require platforms like Facebook, YouTube and others to make BBC and other public service broadcaster content more prominent in users&#8217; feeds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The plans form part of wider efforts to further restrict private media firms and follow directly on the heels of the controversial under-16s social media ban that has already strained relations with tech companies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Public reaction has been swift and scathing. Journalist Allison Pearson did not hold back on the BBC&#8217;s own record:\u00a0During Covid, @BBCNews was the main purveyor of &#8220;misinformation&#8221;.&#8217; Pure propaganda which led to children being denied school for months and a mass epidemic of mental health problems that has injured a generation many of whom have still not come out of their bedrooms. So, no.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/uk-government-plans-force-social-media-giants-boost-bbc-content-fight-disinformation\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/uk-government-plans-force-social-media-giants-boost-bbc-content-fight-disinformation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government, under the apparently outgoing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is advancing proposals that would require platforms like Facebook, YouTube and others to make BBC and other public service broadcaster content more prominent in users&#8217; feeds. The plans form &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=700865\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700866,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700865\/revisions\/700866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}