How are TikTok, Snap and Twitch protecting children from harmful videos?
Published: 14 December 2023
Last updated: 21 March 2025
A new report from Ofcom takes stock of how popular video-sharing platforms are protecting children from accessing potentially harmful videos.
How video-sharing platforms protect children from encountering harmful videos
Published: 14 December 2023
Last updated: 21 March 2025
How TikTok, Twitch and Snap try to prevent children from watching potentially harmful videos.
Enforcement programme into measures being taken by file-sharing and file-storage services to prevent users from encountering or sharing child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
Published: 17 March 2025
Ofcom has opened a programme of work, or ‘enforcement programme’, to assess the measures being taken by providers of file-sharing and file-storage services that present particular risks of harm to UK users from image-based CSAM to ensure users do not encounter, and offenders are not able to disseminate, such content on their services.
Enforcing the Online Safety Act: Platforms must start tackling illegal material from today
Published: 17 March 2025
From today, online platforms must start putting in place measures to protect people in the UK from criminal activity, while Ofcom has launched its latest enforcement programme to assess industry compliance.
Notified video-sharing platforms
Published: 11 January 2024
Last updated: 14 March 2025
A list of video-sharing platform (VSP) services that have notified to Ofcom.
Protecting people from online suicide and self-harm material
Published: 5 March 2025
In the latest in a series of explainers on specific online harms, Ofcom sets out what online service providers operating in the UK need to do to protect people from suicide and self-harm content.
Enforcing the Online Safety Act: Scrutinising illegal harms risk assessments
Published: 3 March 2025
Risk assessments are fundamental to keeping users safer online. In order to put in place appropriate safety measures to protect people, especially children, providers must first understand how harm could take place on their platforms, and how their user-base, features and other characteristics could increase those risks of harm.
Enforcement Programme to monitor compliance with the illegal content risk assessment duties and record keeping duties
Published: 3 March 2025
Statement: Online Safety Information Guidance
Published: 26 July 2024
Last updated: 26 February 2025
We have issued a statement on guidance to help services, and other stakeholders, to understand when and how we might use these powers.
Ofcom calls on tech firms to make online world safer for women and girls
Published: 25 February 2025
Ofcom has today proposed concrete measures that tech firms should take to tackle online harms against women and girls, setting a new and ambitious standard for their online safety.