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  • WeChat, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram,TikTok Messenger, Snapchat and X logos on a phone screen

    UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content

    Ofcom move follows concerns about misinformation and online claims over police response to Henry Nowak stabbing
  • A boy in a white T-shirt holds a smartphone with both hands, focused on the screen

    White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s

    Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies
  • A young person wearing a lot of beaded bracelets stares intently at her mobile phone

    First Edition newsletter
    Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?

    In today’s newsletter: With Keir Starmer expected to announce Australia-style restrictions, further problems including AI chatbots are on the horizon
    Newsletter
  • A person in a patterned top holds a smartphone with both hands

    Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images

  • A child using a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power

  • Teenage students standing in a school hallway, all looking at their phones.

    Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns

  • Ben Jennings on protecting children online – cartoon

    Guardian Opinion cartoon
    Ben Jennings on protecting children online – cartoon

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims - as it happened

  • Pass notes
    Loneliness influencers: why are people suddenly boasting about having no friends?

  • Brief letters
    Let’s call it what it is: antisocial media

  • Starmer gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children’s phones