Ofcom has warned social media sites they could be named and shamed – and banned for under-18s – if they fail to comply with new online safety rules.
The media regulator has published draft codes of practice which require tech firms to have more robust age-checking measures, and to reformulate their algorithms to steer children away from what it called “toxic” material.
But parents of children who died after exposure to harmful online content have described the proposed new rules as “insufficient”.
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