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- A powerful group of British broadcasters signed a letter in the Sunday Telegraph calling for tighter regulation of online content.
- They specifically called for "independent oversight" in the form of a watchdog.
- Tech companies have come under heavy fire recently for how they regulate the content on their platforms.
- Traditional TV is under major threat as young people spend more time on the likes of Snapchat on YouTube than watching linear programming.
A group of top British broadcasters have signed a letter calling for more regulation of tech giants like Twitter, Google and Facebook.
The letter was published in the Sunday Telegraph and signed by the heads of the BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, BT, and Talk Talk. They called for "independent oversight" of tech companies that publish news, in the form of a watchdog.
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