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Recent high-profile UK prosecutions for online hate speech and related online offences cited in the available reporting include convictions and sentences linked to post-riot misinformation, deliberate...
A series of high-profile UK prosecutions in 2024–25 led to convictions for online hate speech and offensive communications, producing outcomes from fines to multi‑month prison terms; notable examples ...
A cluster of recent UK prosecutions — notably the first jail terms for social media posts that stoked far‑right disorder — alongside a steady stream of local magistrates’ and CPS prosecutions, have ha...
Individuals can be prosecuted for online hate speech in the UK under a mix of criminal statutes and the Online Safety Act 2023; courts have imposed prison sentences in high‑profile cases showing prose...
Available reporting indicates that prosecutions for harmful online communications were a fraction of the social-media policing headlines in 2024, and that a relatively small number of those prosecutio...