Overview

• Policy Exchange’s 95-page Bad Faith Actor report alleges the Centre for Media Monitoring uses flawed methods to suppress reporting and mislabels accurate news—such as terrorist attacks—as Islamophobic.
• CfMM has secured influence in UK media oversight through a seat on an Ipso working group, parliamentary briefings and collaborations with the BBC.
• A CfMM spokesman rejected the allegations as distortions and smears, insisting the unit’s complaints are rooted in rigorous research and public interest.
• A government working group led by Dominic Grieve is poised to adopt an official Islamophobia definition that could codify CfMM’s monitoring standards.
• Press freedom advocates warn the definition could grant disproportionate power to activist bodies and chill reporting on Islamic extremism and grooming scandals.