The Latest Breaking News from Liz Kendall

Under-16s social media ban and overnight curfews to be considered – Liz Kendall

The Technology Secretary said she is ‘determined’ to give children the childhood they deserve.

Evening Standard · Jan 20

UK ministers launch consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s

Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19

Criminals using AI to create ‘frightening’ number of child sexual abuse videos

Internet Watch Foundation found the majority of the AI-generated videos fell into Category A, the most extreme classification

The Independent UK · Jan 16

Elon Musk’s X to stop Grok AI undressing images of real people following huge backlash

Elon Musk’s company says it has imposed restrictions on ‘editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis’

Evening Standard · Jan 15

Elon Musk’s X restricts Grok photo editing amid concerns about sexualised images

Ofcom had earlier launched an investigation over reports Grok was allowing users to manipulate images of women and children.

The Independent UK · Jan 15

Starmer ‘won’t back down’ in fight with Musk’s X over Grok AI sexualised images

‘We’ve made it clear that X has to act,’ the prime minister says

The Independent UK · Jan 14

X is acting to comply with UK law, Keir Starmer tells MPs amid Grok row

The PM said news the social media company was taking action on concerns Grok was producing sexualised images of women and children was welcome.

Evening Standard · Jan 14

Watch live: Ministers questioned over Grok AI row as Keir Starmer vows to end abuse on X

Watch live as technology secretary Liz Kendall and culture secretary Lisa Nandy are questioned over AI and copyright on Tuesday (13 January).

The Independent UK · Jan 13

Labour’s first ‘Twitter tsar’ says ministers should get off ‘cesspit’ X immediately

Kerry McCarthy says X had ‘gone too far’ after its AI tool Grok was found to have been used to ‘undress’ images of people without consent and sexualise women and children

The Independent UK · Jan 13

The UK outlaws deepfake nudes on X after Grok AI uproar — Sorry, Elon, it’s nothing to do with suppression of free speech

The UK is bringing into force a law that will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate deepfake images after X's Grok AI was spotted generating sexually explicit images of real people without consent.

Windows Central · Jan 13