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Full Fact seeks broader crisis scope, meaningful data access for accredited fact-checkers and stronger supervision. Ofcom retains a narrower formal channel and declines central coordination and routine submission of every analysis.
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Full Fact acknowledges Ofcom cannot mandate fact-checker partnerships. Class-level protocol decisions are not rejection of every data-access request, nor a new right for Full Fact to direct a platform.
Full Fact → published a dated consultation response → Full Fact additional-safety response — 17 October 2025
2025-10-17 – 2025-10-17
Full Fact's response is dated17October2025 on PDF20 and later listed11December. The response cannot establish its participation in the earlier August meeting.
Full Fact additional-safety response — 17 October 2025 → made consultation requests → Ofcom
2025-10-17 – 2025-10-17
Full Fact requested broader scope, coordination, oversight and access, with expression and proportionality arguments. Publication and citation are not a grant of those powers.
Full Fact additional-safety response — 17 October 2025 → requested broader crisis and legislative scope → Broader crisis scope / systemic misinformation — Full Fact requests
2025-10-17 – 2025-10-17
Paragraph76 aligns scope with s175 health/national-security language; paragraphs77–79 seek evidence/severity/transparent criteria. Separate systemic-misinformation legislative review is acknowledged as beyond this consultation.
Full Fact additional-safety response — 17 October 2025 → requested meaningful access for accredited fact-checkers → Accredited fact-checker data access — Full Fact request
2025-10-17 – 2025-10-17
Full Fact explicitly recognizes that Ofcom cannot mandate platform fact-checker partnerships, then seeks meaningful data access and consequences for failure. A requested institutional benefit is not an actual entitlement.
Full Fact additional-safety response — 17 October 2025 → requested coordination and stronger accountability → Central coordination, records and public summaries — Full Fact requests
2025-10-17 – 2025-10-17
Requests include Ofcom coordination, notifications, evidence logs, oversight, public summaries and regular submission of analyses. Requested safeguards do not establish an executed return/appeal process.
Ofcom → declined extending formal crisis-contact obligations to NGOs/fact-checkers → Ofcom crisis protocol recommendations — June2026
2026-06-09 – 2026-06-09
The statement records requests for formal contacts and real-time access, encourages relevant collaboration, but declines extending formal contact obligations beyond police. This is a class-level disposition, not proof that every Full Fact data-access demand was individually resolved.
Ofcom → declined a central coordinating role and routine analysis submission → Ofcom crisis protocol recommendations — June2026
2026-06-09 – 2026-06-09
Ofcom declines central cross-service coordination and automatic submission/publication of every post-crisis analysis. It retains supervision/request powers; not every oversight request is rejected.
Ofcom → published crisis protocol recommendations → Ofcom crisis protocol recommendations — June2026
2026-06-09 – 2026-06-09
Ofcom's9June2026 statement sets a crisis framework; laid draft and later issue/commencement remain separate stages. No current activation is inferred.