A new report in the Guardian Newspaper describes the death of a14-year-old schoolgirl after TikTok served her suicide content has resuklted in demands that the UK watchdogs should crack down on what the describe as “toxic” social media feeds.
Melanie Dawes, the chief executive of the regulator Ofcom, told parliament “We do not see a safety culture from these large social media companies … they are very slow to acknowledge that there are risks of criminal action, child grooming and also some of these issues of the way the algorithms feed suicide and self-harm material.” She added that “trust they can clean up their own services is simply not there”.
No doubt the UK regulator OFCOM will take the necessary steps to try to address these concerns as the Internet Safety Act strengthens over time.
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