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Platforms to be obliged to tackle 'revenge porn' as top-level offense under UK's Online Safety Act

By Patricia Figueiredo and Frank Hersey ( September 12, 2024, 23:01 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms, Snap and other operators of social media platforms face having to identify and remove “revenge pornography” content under a change to the UK's Online Safety Act, the government has said. The sharing of what's formally known as "non-consensual intimate image abuse" is to be made a "priority offense" under the law. Platforms that fail to proactively remove this material could face fines of up to ten percent of global revenue.Meta Platforms, Snap and other operators of social media platforms face having to identify and remove “revenge pornography” content under a change to the UK's Online Safety Act, the government has said....

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