A regulator should oversee tech giants like Google and Facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy, a government-backed report has suggested. The Cairncross Review into the future of UK news said such sites should help users identify fake news and "Nudge people towards news of high quality". Dame Frances told the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan that "Draconian and risky" measures could result in firms such as Google withdrawing their news services altogether. The review was not asked to comment specifically on the BBC but concluded that curtailing the corporation's news offering would be counter-productive after hearing arguments from other publishers that the BBC reporting on so-called "Soft content" online was crowding out other news providers. The review said the BBC was delivering high quality journalism but suggested it "Could do more and think more carefully about how its news provision can act as a complement, rather than a substitute, for private news provision". Shadow Culture Secretary Tom Watson urged the government to tackle Google and Facebook's "Duopoly" in the digital advertising market, and said Dame Frances was "Barking up the wrong tree" in recommending an inquiry into the BBC's online news output. The speed, versatility and zero cost of so much news now means that, even if it is of poor quality, a generation of consumers has fallen out of the habit of paying for news. Read more