As the regulator responsible for enforcement under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom decides what social media platforms are - and aren’t - required to do to improve the safety of their UK users. These decisions have huge implications, not just for the regulated companies but (and we would say, more importantly) also for millions of people using their services. Yet, despite the huge public interest in its decisions and how they are taken, Ofcom is currently refusing to disclose ev

As MPs prepare to debate a petition to “repeal the Online Safety Act”, new research, commissioned by Clean Up The Internet and conducted by Opinium, suggests that calls to repeal the OSA are significantly out of step with public opinion.

Action on fake and anonymous accounts should be seen as an acid-test as to whether Ofcom is going to do its bit to deliver the government’s crime reduction ambitions.

It could be another 3 years before UK social media users get new verification options. That would be a huge setback for online safety.