Question follow-through · 21653
Social Media: Discrimination
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for her policies of the 40 safety measures that Ofcom has set out for social media platforms to tackle misogyny.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for her policies of the 40 safety measures that Ofcom has set out for social media platforms to tackle misogyny.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Online Safety Act puts new duties on social media companies and search services, making them responsible for their users’ safety. These include new duties tackling illegal content and activity which affects women and girls, including intimate image ab...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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