Ofcom has opened an investigation into TikTok to determine whether the platform has failed to meet its legal duties to protect children from harmful content under the Online Safety Act. The regulator will examine whether TikTok has complied with section 12 of the Act, which requires platforms likely to be accessed by children to use...Read More

A mother who fears her teenage son may have died following an online challenge gone wrong has welcomed a High Court decision to order a new inquest into his death. Ellen Roome, whose 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney died in April 2022, said she hopes it will be a “turning point” in making the “online world...Read More

Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into TikTok’s child safety measures. The regulator is questioning whether TikTok’s age verification system accurately identifies under-18 users. Companies found to have breached the Online Safety Act could face fines of up to £18 million or 10 per cent of global revenue. TikTok is facing a formal UK investigation...Read More

Concerns that TikTok might be failing in its duties relating to the safeguarding of children on its platform have prompted the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom, to launch an investigation into the platform. Specifically, the regulator is looking at whether TikTok has failed, or is currently failing, to comply with requirements outlined in Section 12 of...Read More

The House of Representatives recently passed a bipartisan online child safety package. But the debate isn’t about child safety alone. It’s about preemption. The legislation is part of an ongoing national conversation over Big Tech’s outsized influence on children’s mental health, the rapid development of artificial intelligence, and the role parents should play as these...Read More

UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into TikTok over concerns the social media platform may have failed to comply with its legal duties to protect children from harmful content. The probe will examine whether TikTok has breached obligations under Section 12 of the Online Safety Act 2023, which requires platforms likely to...Read More

Thursday 16 July 2026 3:51 pm Ofcom is looking into Tiktok’s age verifictions Tiktok has insisted it is “confident” it complies with the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) after Ofcom launched an investigation into whether the platform is doing enough to stop children accessing harmful content. The watchdog is looking into whether Tiktok’s age verifictions...Read More

  Britain’s communications regulator on Thursday launched an investigation into whether social media platform TikTok is doing enough under UK law to protect children from harmful content online. “This investigation will seek to establish whether there are reasonable grounds to believe that TikTok has failed, or is failing, to comply with its legal obligations,” Ofcom...Read More

The U.K.’s media watchdog is investigating TikTok over how the company conducts age checks on its users to prevent children from seeing harmful content such as pornography. A TikTok spokesperson said the company meets the Online Safety Act. Ofcom said Thursday that under the U.K.’s Online Safety Act, social-media companies are obliged to use highly...Read More

The UK media regulator, Ofcom, has opened an investigation into TikTok to determine whether the platform is doing enough to protect children and prevent them from accessing harmful content. The regulator said it will examine TikTok’s systems for identifying underage users and whether the platform has effective measures to stop children from viewing content that...Read More