THIS IS ABOUT CENSORING THE RIGHT NOT THE FAR-LEFT. Channel 4 chief calls for regulation of 'partisan' social media and says content poses a 'huge danger' to young people. The boss of Channel 4 today called for the regulation of 'partisan' social media and claimed that online content can pose a 'huge danger' to young people. Chief executive Alex Mahon told an event for the release of a report on levels of public trust that political polarisation is being fuelled by social media content which create 'bubbles' and 'echo chambers'. At a meeting which included former Cabinet minister Baroness Morgan and veteran journalist Andrew Neil, she said unregulated social media poses a 'danger' to young people 'whose rates of self-esteem are plummeting'. Ms Mahon was supported by former Culture Secretary Baroness Morgan, who called for a clampdown on 'dubious' and 'downright deliberately fake' online information and urged the Government to 'get on with it'. The remarks were made at the launch of the Edelman Trust Barometer 2021, which found that trust in all information sources in the UK is at a 'record low'. According to the survey, trust in traditional media, search engines and social media has declined, while 54 per cent of respondents believe that journalists are 'purposely trying to mislead by saying things that they know are false or grossly exaggerated'. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9322169/Channel-4-chief-calls-regulation-partisan-social-media.html