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Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits

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,…

This article was originally published by The Guardian World and is republished here under license.

Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’ as online regulator issues review of first nine months of new regime

Landmark 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.

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