Claims extracted
11
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
27%
3 of 11 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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Leans strongly left
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Walliams, 55, has been accused by several women of sexual misconduct and abusing his position.
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Walliams → accuse → position
Following allegations made as a part of a joint three-year investigation by the Guardian and ITV News, Walliams has denied claims that was a “sexual predator”, and that he groomed schoolgirls and lured young women to both his dressing rooms and north London home.
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he → follow → rooms
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BBC Newsnight has now reported that culture Secretary Lisa Nandy will tell a meeting of industry leaders next week that she will issue a legal crackdown in order to protect whistleblowers if their response to recent allegations is not robust enough.
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response → read → allegations
Intervention could include forcing participation in the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority (CIISA), which is currently voluntary.
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which → include → Authority
Ms Nandy will urge industry leaders that they need to take responsibility and tackle issues of safeguarding on their own, but that the government might have to intervene.
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government → urge → own
She said she would "draw a line" in the sand, adding: “A decade and a half on from the revelations about Jimmy Savile, and ten years on from the MeToo movement, we must finally take meaningful steps to end abuse and harassment.”
Women and Equalities minister Bridget Phillipson said the Government should restrict the use of NDAs, telling Sky News that there was "scope to go further" to ensure the legal system was not "abused in order to silence women".
She said: "We cannot have a system where rich and powerful individuals, rich and powerful men, are able to silence women and stop things coming to light.”
She said: "There are no other regulatory bodies that are voluntary to join.”
"It's still very wild west in the creative industries, people behave how they want,” she added.
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she → say → industries
Comedian Lucy Beaumont, one of the investigation's whistleblowers, said a young TV worker told her that his job was to take young girls to Walliams' dressing room.
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job → say → room
She said that one of Walliams’ accusers was “in a really bad way”, and that Walliams' lawyers had told her to sign a NDA to secure her silence, which stopped her from telling her family or a therapist.
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which → say → family
An ITV spokesperson said: “We are completely committed at ITV to creating an environment where everyone is treated with respect.”
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everyone → say → respect
Walliams has said he was "not a sexual predator" and had not "broken the law".
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he → say → law
He said he "realised that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with" and said he regretted not always taking "people's feelings properly into account".
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he → say → account
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