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Jun 15, 2021 25 tweets 10 min read
This morning we're hearing from senior leadership of the BBC, past and present, about the events surrounding Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview with the Princess of Wales.

Watch live here from 10am: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/e2…

@julianknight15 Witnesses are as follows:

10am - Lord Hall, former DG of the BBC

approx 11am - Lord Birt, former DG of the BBC

approx - 12pm - Tim Davie, DG, and Richard Sharp, Chair @BBC
Feb 10, 2021 14 tweets 7 min read
In our #MusicStreamingInquiry session, we're questioning:

🎵Geoff Taylor, @bpi_music
🎵Roberto Neri, @the_MPA
🎵Horace Trubridge, @WeAreTheMU
🎵Graham Davies, @IvorsAcademy

🎵Katherine Oyama, YouTube
🎵Raoul Chatterjee, SoundCloud
🎵Steve Bené, Twitch twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… Geoff Taylor @BPI says YouTube's ratio of risk and reward for its part in music streaming is "out of kilter" in response to Chair @julianknight15. While they are growing their business, they are only paying a tiny fraction of income generated to the music industry.
Nov 3, 2020 16 tweets 8 min read
💻Today we're hearing from representatives from Amazon and YouTube about the role of video on demand services in the UK, and their relationships with the PSBs. 

📺Watch live from 10am here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/9a…

@julianknight15 We'll be hearing from:

Georgia Brown - Director of European Originals, Amazon Studios
Chris Bird - Head of Content Europe, Amazon Prime Video

then

Iain Bundred - Head of Public Policy, UK & Ireland, YouTube
Richard Lewis - Head of UK & Ireland Content Partnerships, YouTube
Nov 13, 2018 7 tweets 2 min read
1/7 Mark Zuckerberg CEO of @facebook has declined the invitation from 5 Parliaments to give evidence on 27th November. Chair @DamianCollins' response: 2/7 “Facebook’s letter is, once again, hugely disappointing. We believe Mark Zuckerberg has important questions to answer about what he knew about breaches of data protection law involving their customers’ personal data..."