{"id":78373,"date":"2026-09-07T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/trump-administration-attacks-uk-plans-to-boost-traditional-media-on-social-platforms\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:58:17","slug":"trump-administration-attacks-uk-plans-to-boost-traditional-media-on-social-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/trump-administration-attacks-uk-plans-to-boost-traditional-media-on-social-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration attacks UK plans to boost traditional media on social platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US embassy says Downing Street\u2019s plan to give BBC, ITV and other established media more online visibility carries risk of \u2018censorship\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d over Downing Street\u2019s plan to force YouTube and other digital platforms to hand more prominence to established broadcasters, warning the move risks \u201cfacilitating censorship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a pointed intervention, the US government said the proposals to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/aug\/22\/auntie-v-influencers-why-youtubers-are-ready-for-battle-with-the-bbc\">boost traditional media outlets in social media algorithms<\/a> could \u201cestablish a template that authoritarian regimes could invoke to justify more control over online content\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/07\/trump-administration-attacks-uk-social-media-plans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US embassy says Downing Street\u2019s plan to give BBC, ITV and other established media more online visibility carries risk of \u2018censorship\u2019 The Trump administration has raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d over Downing Street\u2019s plan to force YouTube and other digital platforms to hand more prominence to established broadcasters, warning the move risks \u201cfacilitating censorship\u201d. In a pointed &#8230; <a title=\"Trump administration attacks UK plans to boost traditional media on social platforms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/trump-administration-attacks-uk-plans-to-boost-traditional-media-on-social-platforms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump administration attacks UK plans to boost traditional media on social platforms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}