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UK's Ofcom wants to go public on progress with supervised big companies, says CEO

By Frank Hersey ( January 27, 2026, 18:55 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, would like to share more of its progress with the big companies it supervises in order to build public trust in their efforts, the watchdog’s chief told lawmakers. The authority faces pressure to act swiftly on concerns such as the outcry over nonconsensual images generated by users of X’s Grok account.Ofcom is giving “deep thought” to how it might be able to tell the public more about the conversations it has with big companies that it supervises in an effort to explain the progress it makes, Melanie Dawes, the watchdog’s CEO, told parliament’s Industry and Regulators committee. She told lawmakers Ofcom is “very open” to risk when it comes to enforcement because it’s operating in a novel area, and it has no requirements to consider the impact of tech regulation on UK-US trade deals....

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