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Platforms face shaming threat as UK online safety watchdog's latest gambit

By Frank Hersey ( November 25, 2025, 17:19 GMT | Comment) -- Online platforms offering services in scope of the UK’s Online Safety Act will face accountability efforts by the regulator in the hope they will adhere to new voluntary guidance on protecting women and girls using their products. Their efforts will be compiled in a report in spring 2027 and could lead to the regulator itself calling for a strengthening of the law — something increasingly urged by camapigners.Online platforms face public accountability efforts to push them to do more to protect women and girls online, new guidance from the Online Safety Act regulator Ofcom shows — guidance that's not statutory and so unenforceable....

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