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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 4h

Strong ending to episode 3 of #TheHack - see you all next week for episode 4!

Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 4h

“The truth is power and secrecy walk hand in hand

Here’s the thing. If you can expose the secrecy - you might, might might, break the power.”

#TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

“The truth is power and secrecy walk hand in hand

Here’s the thing. If you can expose the secrecy - you might, might might, break the power.”

#TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

COOK: “The press goes through the police like a stick of rock.” #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

“O2: 40 victims
Vodaphone: 40
Orange: 45…..

And this is just the tip of a very big iceberg. This was a practice.

....and no-paper thought it was interesting.” #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Spoiler: It was not the death of self-regulation (or the PCC). The press still controls its own pet regulator, the PCC just rebranded as “IPSO”. #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

74,008 have signed for a #BetterMediaBill

Will you join them?

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

#TheHack

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

...they still do.

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

The relationship between police and press ought to have clear boundaries. The police should fulfil the duties without fear or favour, and the press should hold them to account. Unfortunately, those boundaries have been blurred. And they denied it for years. #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

"The kind of injury from which some victims simply never recover. A monstering is intended to destroy the victim involved, and it is intended to make sure that no-one stands up to them ever again."

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Nick Davies “There is an art to fear. An art that News of the World and all those nasty buggers mastered a long time ago. They call it monstering. Grievous emotional harm." #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

www.tvguide.co.uk/articles/the...

The Hack on ITV: All the celebrities targeted in the phone hacking scandal

Thousands of public figures were victims of the criminality - including Cabinet Ministers, MPs, actors and sports stars...

www.tvguide.co.uk

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

New claims keep coming even in the 2020s. Prince Harry’s case, for example, is part of this ongoing litigation.

Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Spoiler alert - 5,795 people were formally notified as likely or confirmed victims

More than 1,500 individuals have now settled or sued successfully mainly against News Group Newspapers and Mirror Group

#TheHack

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Robin Smith 🇺🇦 @robin.bobin.uk · 6h

Need to see more of this Gordon Brown impersonation.

Can definitely recommend this ITV docuseries. Some of the things The News Of The World got up to and how they were discovered are mind-blowing.

Millie Dowler and Sienna Miller stories in particular are hauntingly tragic.

#UKPolitics #TheHack

dougray scott as Gordon Brown in ITV series 'the hack'

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

#DYK The initial investigation into hacking at News of the World - which failed to get to the bottom of the scandal - was carried out by a police officer who subsequently left the force. And then got a job with News UK. #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Cook: “These meetings are dominated by how to get the cases that are going well on the front of the tabloids, and the cases that are not going so well off them. By order of the Commissioner Dick will wine and dine the crime journalists. Guess who he meets the most? News of the World and The Sun.”

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Davies: “Good press matters that much??

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Cook: “Ever since Stephen Lawrence - the Met have made it their job to - well - Dick Fedorcio, director of communications? He currently sits on the Met’s senior management team. Our comms chief. Not a police officer. And he has direct impact on operational decisions.”

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Davies: “Why would the Met not flag evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service”??

#TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

David Leigh: “Murdoch’s an eel. He’s entirely relentless.”
Nick Davies: “I’m not picking a fight with Murdoch”
David Leigh: “No, you’re picking a fight with our entire industry.”
#TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

#DYK John Ford has previously claimed that he committed illegal acts on behalf of The Sunday Times.
The Sunday Times denies this - but has also campaigned against Leveson 2, which would have investigated it further. #TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

👁️“Do you want the evidence or not?” - Nick Davies.
It shouldn’t be this hard to get evidence taken seriously - but the police and Scotland Yard initially ignored the hacking evidence, including transcripts of hacked voicemails which back up the hacking claims.
#TheHack

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 5h

Here we go with episode 3 of #TheHack... live posts tonight from Liz. Let us know if you're watching.

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Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social · 14d

Do you want fair, independent press regulation?
Do you want to protect ordinary people from press abuse?
Do you want to restore trust in the press?

So do Hugh Grant & Jacqui Hames.
Sign the petition to change the law.

Let's demand change

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

#BetterMediaBill

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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