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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

UK online safety laws ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘uneven’, says science minister

A teenage child looks at the screen of a mobile phone
Peter Kyle said US tech companies must comply with UK law, after Meta’s factchecking changes. Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Online safety legislation is “unsatisfactory” and “uneven”, the science secretary has said as he expressed hopes for parliament to learn to legislate faster on the issue.

Peter Kyle said he had given a “very personal commitment to making sure that everybody – particularly people with vulnerabilities, and every child is vulnerable – has protection”, after Ian Russell, whose daughter killed herself after viewing harmful content on social media, told Keir Starmer the UK was “going backwards” on online safety.

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