Theguardian iconTheguardianOct 23, 2026

UK children just as likely to have suffered harm on social media despite crackdown

Campaigners call lack of progress ‘staggering’, as Ofcom also admits little change in severity of harm to children encountering unsafe content Landmark online safety measures have failed to limit the proportion of children suffering harm from social media, the UK’s online regulator has admitted, in an assessment brande

UK children just as likely to have suffered harm on social media despite crackdown

Share this story

Send the public story page.

Keep reading in the app

Open the app view to save this story, compare related coverage, and continue from the same source.

Open in app