ANY attempts to regulate the press should police the internet as well as newspapers, a think-tank will warn today.
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) will say, two days before the Leveson Inquiry on press standards is due to issue its report, that old distinctions between media types are "redundant".
It followed uproar last year when media outlets were banned from identifying Ryan Giggs as the footballer who took out a superinjunction over affair allegations, despite almost 30,000 Twitter users naming him.
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