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Ofcom admits UK online safety laws failed to reduce child harm, prompting campaigners to demand urgent action against the regulator’s lack of progress.
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Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits
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Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’ as online regulator issues review of first nine months of new regimeLandmark online safety measures have failed to limit the proportion of children suffering harm from social media, the UK’s online regulator has admitted, in an assessment branded “staggering” by campaigners.The proportion of children being fed unsafe content that often left them frightened, confused and upset, was almost unchanged, according to an Ofcom review of the first nine months of supposedly strict requirements on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. Continue reading...
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