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UK teens survey shows online safety law needs more ambition, advocacy group says

( October 9, 2025, 23:01 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A survey of almost 1,900 UK teenagers, done weeks before child protection codes under the country's Online Safety Act took effect, found that 49 percent of girls, and more than a third of respondents overall, had seen "suicide, self-harm, depression and eating-disorder content" on social media in the previous week. Over half of respondents encountered such material through recommender feeds. The Molly Rose Foundation, which commissioned the survey, claimed it could be a "baseline against which the effectiveness of regulation can be judged." It called for better oversight of how algorithm-based functionalities expose children to harmful content.Statement follows. Research briefing attached....

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