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Evening Standard
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Rob Freeman

Suicide forum investigated under new online safety laws

The service provider for an online suicide forum has become the first to be investigated by Ofcom under the Online Safety Act (Tim Goode/PA) - (PA Archive)

A suicide forum is being investigated by regulator Ofcom as part of the first probe of its kind under the Online Safety Act.

The watchdog will look at whether the site’s service provider failed to put in place “appropriate safety measures” to protect users from illegal content and activity.

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