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News UK boss David Dinsmore is keen for newspapers to avoid regulation under the new Online Safety Bill. SOLOMON HUGHES reports from the Tory Party conference fringe

FORMER Sun editor David Dinsmore told delegates at a packed Tory conference fringe meeting that his newspapers are vital for “nuance” in politics while social media is causing “polarisation.” 

Dinsmore, who is now chief operating officer of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK business, also claimed that the Sun was partly responsible for the success of Britain’s vaccination effort as he demanded his newspapers be free from new internet regulations in the interests of “democracy.”

Dinsmore was addressing a meeting at the Conservative conference in Manchester organised by the Digital Tories group alongside Damian Collins, the Tory MP chairing the committee of MPs inspecting the new Online Safety Bill, which will regulate web content. 

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