U.K. Culture Secretary Talks Regulation of Streamers, “Pernicious, Unchecked Disinformation”

The U.K. needs to be better represented in all its diversity on film and TV screens, fight polarizing fake news, and level the playing field for streamers and traditional broadcasters, Lisa Nandy, U.K. Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the relatively new Labour Party government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer, told a London conference on Tuesday, highlighting the “challenging” time the industry is going through amid digital disruption and after the impact of the COVID pandemic and advertising downturn.

Outlining her priorities in her first major public speech since her appointment during a keynote appearance at the Royal Television Society’s London Convention 2024, she said: “There’s a choice ahead of us, whether we choose to be the last guardians of this chapter, or whether we choose to be the first pioneers of the next.”