Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry has called for Facebook and other “aggregating news agencies” to be reclassified as publishers in order to stop fake news and online abuse from spreading. Outlining his “reformation” for the internet, as part of the Hay literary festival’s programme, the English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist accused social media platforms of refusing to “take responsibility for those dangerous, defamatory, inflammatory and fake items whose effects will have legal consequences for traditional printed or broadcast media, but which they can escape”.

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