This paper is Demos’s formal response to the DCMS Green Paper, Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media. Read our accompanying report, “Fairer Feeds: Public interest news, prominence rules, and the future of discoverability on platforms”, where we reccomended updating the UK’s existing prominence rules ensuring that content prioritisation processes on platforms allow citizens to consistently access public interest information and fulfil their basic democratic needs.
This is the latest evidence submission as part of the Epistemic Security programme that focuses on securing information supply chains within the UK and building resilience to adverse influence on our democratic processes. In the context of democratic backsliding and rising extreme populism, we are making the case this should be a central mission of this government.