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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

New duties on social media firms as Tories accused of watering down legislation

Tory rebels have forced the Government to ditch a curb on “legal but harmful” content in an overhaul of looming web laws.

A shake-up to the Online Safety Bill will force social media firms to bolster protections for children.

But ministers have bowed to demands from backbenchers and campaigners to ditch plans to outlaw the availability of material which, though not illegal, could be deemed harmful.

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