Journalists and media outlets campaigning against anti-corruption bodies are actively spreading a “massive trove of misinformation”, appear to be running a “deliberate campaign to mislead people”, says former top judge.

Media watchdog ACMA fails to determine what content prompted YouTube’s Sky News Australia ban, more than two weeks in.

Over 85 per cent of broadcasting complaints made to Australia’s media regulator are never even being considered, under the so-called “co—regulatory system”.

Media regulator ACMA has not published its “quarterly” reports on complaints and investigations for almost a year, has reviewed just one of the 23 complaints that it has received over Sky News Australia’s Covid-19 coverage.

The nation’s media union has been stitched-up by Nine Entertainment, hoodwinked into dropping its campaign to ensure editorial independence at the former Fairfax mastheads.

Nine Entertainment’s board never signed the independence charter that governed 180 year-old Fairfax Media.