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Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws

Platforms must safeguard against content such as terrorist and child sexual abuse material under Online Safety Act

The Guardian - UK

Critics say Ofcom is too weak on illegal social media content as new rules start

From Monday, Ofcom will start enforcing the Online Safety Act’s illegal content codes.

The Independent UK

Keep your children off Roblox, CEO warns worried parents

Keeping the kids off Roblox may be easier said than done

Evening Standard

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Paloma Faith: Why I won’t be giving my children smartphones

Singer backs 100,000-strong movement of parents committing to give their children a smartphone-free childhood

The Independent UK

‘Miracle spring water’ lands Christian TV channel with £150,000 Ofcom fine

Regulator says claims of product’s healing powers aired on The Word Network had potential to cause harm

The Guardian - UK

Ofcom fines religious channel £150,000 for ‘claiming water product cures cancer’

The media watchdog said two episodes of Peter Popoff Ministries, presented by American televangelist Peter Popoff, had ‘potentially harmful claims’.

Evening Standard

Christian TV channel fined £150,000 by Ofcom for ‘claiming miracle water cures cancer’

Ofcom said two episodes of Peter Popoff Ministries had ‘potentially harmful claims’

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Molly Russell’s father ‘losing trust’ in minister over online safety

Ian Russell said ‘nothing had changed since his daughter chose to end her life in 2017 after viewing harmful content

Evening Standard

‘Very ambitious’ online safety rules will protect under-18s, Ofcom boss says

Dame Melanie Dawes said the Online Safety Act would give under-18s a ‘very different experience’ online than they get currently

Evening Standard

AI ‘wingmen’ bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps

Users may have difficulty once they arrive on real-life dates, without their phone to help them, say academics

The Guardian - UK

First-class stamp price climbs to £1.70 in ‘blow to consumers’

Royal Mail has more than doubled the price of first-class stamps since 2020, when they cost 76p.

Evening Standard

Royal Mail to increase price of stamps again in ‘blow to consumers’

The price of first-class stamps has more than doubled since 2020, when they cost 76p

The Independent UK

Royal Mail to increase price of first-class stamp to £1.70

Cost of second-class service to rise to 87p in sixth increase in little more than three years

The Guardian - UK

As a teenager, I was a victim of online ‘revenge porn’. Here’s how Britain should protect people like me

The UK’s current measures to stop non-consensual intimate image abuse are full of loopholes. We need new laws now , says writer Isabel Brooks

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Brit Awards receive 825 complaints as pop stars’ skimpy outfits rile viewers

Brit Awards hit with hundreds of complaints over pop stars’ racy outfits

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800+ Complaints Sent To UK Regulator, Majority Over Sabrina Carpenter And Charli XCX

Charli XCX addressed the outrage on stage, while Sabrina Carpenter wrote a cheeky comment online after her provocative performance was slammed by viewers. The post 800+ Complaints Sent To UK Regulator, Majority Over Sabrina Carpenter And Charli XCX first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Green light for £1.2bn ‘bulk mail’ claim against Royal Mail owner to go to trial

Class action accuses International Distribution Services of abusing ‘dominant position’ in market

Evening Standard

Royal Mail £3.6bn takeover delayed amid political woes in Romania

EP Group still needs to gain approval from officials in Romania and now expects to complete the takeover in the second quarter.

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Public Urges Tougher Online Safety Laws After Southport Attacks

LONDON, UK — A new poll reveals that nearly nine in ten (87%) adults are concerned about extreme violence circulating online following the Southport attacks,

Evening Standard

Ex-BBC boss says most staff seek to be impartial amid Gaza documentary row

Lord Birt was director-general of the BBC from 1992 to 2000.

The Independent UK

BBC director general Tim Davie doesn’t rule out reairing controversial Gaza documentary

The BBC previously said it had ‘no plans to broadcast the programme again in its current form or return it to iPlayer’

Evening Standard

BBC boss ‘not ruling out’ controversial Gaza documentary returning to iPlayer

The corporation removed the documentary from the BBC’s on demand service after it emerged that the child narrator is the son of a Hamas official.

Evening Standard

BBC bosses to be questioned by MPs amid Gaza documentary controversy

The session on Tuesday morning was already scheduled as part of the committee’s ongoing scrutiny into the work of the corporation.

The Independent UK

BBC heads to face MPs amid backlash to Hamas-linked documentary

It comes after the BBC apologised for ‘serious flaws’

The Guardian - UK

Channel 4 News featured son of Hamas official used in BBC Gaza documentary

Footage of Abdullah al-Yazouri, whose father is deputy agriculture minister, included in Gaza reports

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