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UK watchdogs urged to tackle suicide social media content after death of girl, 14

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Adriana Retyte took her own life after viewing ‘high-risk’ material on the video-sharing platform TikTokA 14-year-old schoolgirl’s death after TikTok served her suicide content has prompted renewed calls for UK watchdogs to crack down on “toxic” social media feeds.Adriana Retyte, a pupil at Langley school in Norfolk, took her own life after she viewed videos

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Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants safety checks

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Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety ActMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is under investigation for a potential breach of the UK’s digital safety laws after launching a Snapchat-style feature on Instagram.The UK’s communications watchdog, Ofcom, is investigating whether the $1.9tn (£1.4tn) company infringed the Online Safety Act (OSA) by

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UK investigation to determine if TikTok fails to protect children from harmful content

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Ofcom concerned platform’s age verification is ineffective, leaving some at risk of seeing posts about self-harm and suicideTikTok is under formal investigation over concerns it has failed to protect children from harmful content, the UK’s online regulator, Ofcom, has announced.The social media platform’s approach to checking the ages of users has sparked “particular concerns” at

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Lisa Nandy quits X over fears Musk-owned site pushes ‘abuse and misinformation’

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Culture secretary says her department will stop using platform, citing concerns over far-right content fuelling violence and divisionThe UK’s culture and media department will stop using X because the site “now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate”, Lisa Nandy has announced.The culture secretary’s department is the UK’s second to quit the Elon Musk-owned platform

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Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app

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Exclusive: Telegram urged to clarify how it detects illegal incitement after attacks were coordinated using appTelegram is facing questions from Ofcom over how it detects and prevents illegal incitement after a Ukrainian man was found guilty of carrying out arson attacks on a car and property associated with Keir Starmer.A spokesperson for the regulator said

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X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts

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Site takes no action over hate posts against UK politicians including Kemi Badenock, Shabana Mahmood and Zia Yusuf X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians, including Kemi Badenoch, have been racially abused.In May, researchers from the social inclusion thinktank British

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Ofcom warns social media firms over online abuse during World Cup

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Regulator will monitor measures taken by companies‘Spikes have often targeted Black and minority ethnic players’Ofcom has written to social media companies to remind them of their responsibilities regarding online abuse and said it will monitor measures taken against “illegal hate content” during the World Cup.After the experience of England players during the men’s 2021 European

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Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse

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Ofcom to update codes of practice amid rise in ‘revenge porn’ and AI-generated deepfakes targeting women and girlsSocial media, messaging platforms and online forums that publish intimate image abuse – often intended to humiliate women and girls – are being instructed to follow new guidelines to stop it spreading.Ofcom said it will change its codes

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The Guardian view on policing the internet: Ofcom must pusher harder on illegal content | Editorial

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Jess Phillips’ frustration about online safety highlights the alarming reluctance to confront big techThe £950,000 fine imposed by Ofcom on a US-based suicide forum that is implicated in over 160 UK deaths marks an intensification of the regulator’s efforts to make the internet safer. Campaigners against online harms, including relatives of people who have taken

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X to block UK access to accounts linked to terrorist groups in Ofcom agreement

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Media regulator announces commitments by Elon Musk’s platform to crack down on terrorist and hate contentElon Musk’s X platform has promised to block UK access to accounts linked to banned terrorist groups under an agreement with the communications regulator to crack down on terrorist and hate content.X will also review suspected illegal terrorist and hate

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