Britain's regulators are pushing social media giants for tougher age verification. Ofcom and ICO are concerned about children's exposure to...

British MPs struck down proposals for a blanket ban on social media for children under 16, as the government backed a separate consultation...

Technology companies in Britain will be required to block unsolicited sexual images under online safety rules taking effect on Thursday, as...

Reddit has overtaken TikTok to become the UK’s fourth most-visited social media platform, boosted by Google search changes and Gen Z usage....

Social media platform X has criticised the UK's Online Safety Act, warning it could suppress free speech through excessive regulation. Whil...

The changes to Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads, were announced last week by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with critics saying the m...

From Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) to ByteDance's TikTok, social media platforms have been under scrutiny this year, with governments as...

Media regulator Ofcom said that according to the new code, reporting and complaint functions must be more accessible and user-friendly. Hig...

As rioters clashed with police in some towns and cities, Musk joined the debate on his X platform, posting that civil war was "inevitable" ...

British telecommunications regulator Ofcom said Wednesday it had handed video sharing platform TikTok a 1.9 million pound ($2.4 million) fi...

Reuters reported exclusively in March that Snapchat owner Snap Inc had only removed a few dozen children aged under-13 from its platform in...

WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an "unelected official the power to weaken the privacy...

The study found a slight increase in both apps' popularity in the past year, with TikTok now being used by 53% of children (up from 50%), a...

Britain, like the European Union and other countries, has been grappling with how to protect social media users, and in particular children...

According to figures recently published by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Young Children), Snapchat accounted...

Further hearings on the findings of the probe will begin shortly, the sources said. Google will then have a chance to present its argument,...

Tech platforms will also need to do more to protect children from being exposed to grooming, bullying and pornography, the government said,...