They broke the news about the injunction on Tuesday night.
The Daily Telegraph have announced that a leading businessman had been granted an injunction, which has prevented the newspaper from reporting on alleged sexual harassment and racial abuse of staff.
In the report on the gag order, the outlet said that the information “would be sure to reignite the #MeToo movement against the mistreatment of women, minorities and others by powerful employers”.
In a follow-up opinion piece, The Telegraph stated that “this is not just a story about the misuse of NDAs, whose original purpose has been bent and skewed to silence allegations of wrong-doing. It is about the freedom of the press to disclose this information and identify the individual concerned.”
Additionally, Maria Miller, the chair of the Commons women’s and equality committee, said it was “shocking” that NDAs were still being used to gag victims.
Mark Di Stefano, a reporter for Buzzfeed UK, tweeted that the newspaper’s editor Chris Evans told his staff the following:
“We think it is overwhelmingly in the public interest that this story of ours be told and we are confident that, eventually, we will overturn the injunction.”
“I must remind you that we are the subject of an injunction which makes anyone who breaches it liable to imprisonment and so to avoid any risk of you doing so you must not speculate as to the identity of the individual or retweet or comment on speculation[.]”
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