Marianna Spring appears at how Ofcom desires to guard under-18 from dangerous content material on social media.
The UK’s media regulator has printed draft codes of observe which require tech corporations to have extra sturdy age-checking measures, and to reformulate their algorithms to steer kids away from what it referred to as “poisonous” materials.
In statements, Meta and Snapchat mentioned they’d further protections for under-18s, and supplied parental instruments to regulate what kids can see on their platforms.