How the Government can plug the significant gaps in the Online Safety Act.

Online safety fallout, AI safety series raise and speaking to strangers

Hello and welcome to Everything in Moderation's Week in Review, your need-to-know news and analysis about platform policy, content moderation and internet regulation. It's written by me, Ben Whitelaw and supported by members like you.This is edition #300 of EiM. Three hundred. What started as a side project in 2018 has, somewhat improbably, made it this far. Thanks to everyone who has read, shared, supported, and followed my takes on the obscure…

Will the Online Safety Act protect young people’s mental health?

At a glance The UK Online Safety Act makes it the duty of social media companies and platform providers to protect children and adults from harm by making them responsible for their user’s safety whilst on their platforms. There is evidence that children accessing pornographic and sexually explicit material does have a negative impact on their mental health. The Act brings in new age verification requirements to prevent this. There is also a do…

How the Government can plug the significant gaps in the Online Safety Act.

Is enough being done to tackle the spread of misinformation and online harms on social media? Last month, the House of Commons select committee on Science Innovation & Technology published a report on how the Government can plug the significant gaps in the Online Safety Act. Read here: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5901/cmselect/cmsctech/441/report.html