Opinion: The hazards of social media are too large for Ofcom to take care of by myself

Law is desperately wanted, however tackling damaging content material on-line stays one of the most largest demanding situations going through any executive
Regulation is desperately needed, but tackling harmful content online remains one of the biggest challenges facing any government

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Author: The Independent

The Independent has recently written 10 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Columnist posts apology over attacks on Muslim journalist". (March 16, 2021)
  2. "Facebook has allowed groups many tied to QAnon and militia movements to glorify violence during the 2020 election, a new report finds". (March 23, 2021)
  3. "Facebook made it through the 2020 election cracking down political misinformation with tweaks to its rules and stepped-up enforcement". (March 24, 2021)
  4. "Facebook says it is lifting its ban on political and social-issue ads put in place after the 2020 U.S". (March 3, 2021)
  5. "Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg is shown as the QAnon Shaman ahead of questioning from the US congress". (March 25, 2021)
  6. "In a private Facebook group called the Pittsburgh Area Police Breakroom, many current and retired officers spent the year criticizing chiefs that took a knee or officers who marched with Black Lives Matter protesters, who they called terrorists, racist or thugs". (March 22, 2021)
  7. "Alarmed by the rise of online anti-Semitism in the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with studies indicating younger generations lack even basic knowledge of the Nazi genocide, Holocaust survivors are taking to social media to share their experience of how hate speech paved the way for mass murder". (April 8, 2021)
  8. "Facebook will not notify the more than half a billion people caught up in a huge leak of personal information, it has said". (April 8, 2021)
  9. "A civil rights group is suing Facebook and its executives". (April 8, 2021)
  10. "Facebook users have been urged to be cautious after a huge dump of their personal information online". (April 5, 2021)
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