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Ofcom has launched an investigation into Pornhub owner, Aylo, over whether the site’s new age checks are effectively stopping children from accessing adult content.

Action against Ofcom comes as social media companies are being accused of using courts to slow down implementation

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Katowice (Poland), two suspects were detained on Monday, in an investigation into subsidy fraud and attempted subsidy fraud involving EU-funded IT training for older people.

The White House has slammed Labour for "censorship" plans to force social media platforms and search engines to promote "trustworthy" sources.

‘That man’s filming us,’ a girl whispers to her friend as they order food at a London McDonald’s.

LBC has infiltrated an online forum used by Islamic State supporters to share detailed instructions on starting wildfires, exhausting emergency services and avoiding detection by police and forensic investigators...

A shocking dossier on Britain’s free speech crisis was shared with the White House before Sir Keir Starmer’s visit last year.

A jury will decide whether or not Meta designed its apps to “hook the users, hold them for as long as they can, harvest their data and hide the truth from the public"

AI “nudification” apps allowing users to upload their own photos to generate depictions of rape and sexual assault are freely available to download on Apple’s App store

Earlier this year, we published a major investigation into the DIY chatbot apps cashing in on users’ desire for intimacy. Chief among them was Seewa AI, which offered its users the “perfect AI girlfriend”, drew them in with intimate conversations and promised that all chats were strictly confidential.

Scots schoolboys as young as 12 have been targeted online in a social media sextortion plot as police issued an urgent warning to parents.

Ofcom has launched an investigation into the social media platform TikTok over harmful content concerns.

Restricting access to certain AI features by age could fail to address deeper issues like addictive design patterns, emotional reliance, and the risks posed by smaller, less-regulated apps.

Age verification means that the sector’s biggest players will now have access to information that will only make them richer and more powerful

The social media ban for under-16s is not a “silver bullet”, the Technology Secretary acknowledged as she faced a backlash from firms which will be hit by the restriction.

Britain’s plans to ban social media for under-16s will push teenagers towards more harmful platforms, the world’s biggest technology companies have said as ministers push to enact the new restrictions by next spring.

The Northern Ireland First Minister queried whether the move was ‘more about internal Labour Party politics than what is right’.

Having read about how much easy money can be made as an OnlyFans model, Rebecca was excited when she joined and got off to a good start.

A US lawyer who sued tech giants Meta and Google for $6 million in a historic case after they were found liable for social media addiction has told LBC the UK ban is a "landmark moment" and said tech firms must be hit in the pocket.

Keir Starmer will ban under-16s from major social media apps such as TikTok, Instagram and X in sweeping restrictions described as “Australia plus”, the Guardian understands.

Wes Streeting has called for Keir Starmer to take urgent action against X and other online platforms that have contributed to escalating social tensions, suggesting they should be required to help cover rebuilding costs following the riots in Belfast.

Social media companies will be forced to take quicker action to stop users inciting violence and disorder on their platforms under changes to the UK’s online safety laws.

Sitting in his Paris flat, Noé Campo reads the transcript of an exchange between an AI chatbot and a real person. The conversation took place on Seewa AI, the companion chatbot platform he built in three weeks. The exchange is intimate, personal and private. Or so the person thought.