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The government has urged the regulator Ofcom to use all its powers – up to and including an effective ban – against X over concerns about unlawful AI images created on the site.
Britain could ban Elon Musk’s X amid a row over its AI undressing women and children in photographs. Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that he had asked media regulator Ofcom for “all options to be on the table” after it emerged that child sexual abuse images had been generated using X’s AI chatbot, Grok.
An Ofcom spokesperson said the company had 'made urgent contact with X and xAI' after 'serious concerns' that the Grok AI was making 'undressed images of people and sexualised images of children'
A suicide forum used by two young people who fatally poisoned themselves has been warned it could be fined up to £18m for breaching the UK's Online Safety Act. Vlad Nikolin-Caisley, 17, and Aimee Walton, 21, both from Southampton, died after taking poison recommended in the online pro-suicide chat room.
BT could face an investigation after its digital rollout left some vulnerable customers without access to a phone line.
Ofcom has said it's "working towards issuing a provisional decision" amid breaches of the Online Safety Act made by a pro-suicide forum as Miles Cross, a suicide substance seller is jailed
Google raised free speech concerns when it formally replied to online safety proposals by Britain’s independent media regulator, but it did not say the company received specific takedown requests, nor that the UK risked “authoritarian irrelevance”,
FURIOUS telly fans flood Ofcom with calls every week to vent their anger – but every year there are certain TV moments that leave viewers raging even more than usual. In 2025, the TV
The UK telco watchdog will require search engines, social media platforms, and video-sharing sites and apps to take measures to prevent children from accessing harmful content with themes like suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, pornography etc.
Labour has told Elon Musk to stop his Grok chatbot from creating “appalling” deepfake images of women and children, saying the Government would back regulator Ofcom if it fined the company.