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Social Media: Regulation
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that social media platforms enforce their own (a) hate speech and (b) child protection policies.
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- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 18 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 20 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 26 Jun 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps he is taking to ensure that social media platforms enforce their own (a) hate speech and (b) child protection policies.
20 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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26 Jun 2025
Answer published
Under the Online Safety Act, the largest services will need to put in place processes to enforce any Terms of Service they set for legal content for adults, including legal hate speech. Platforms likely to be accessed by children must also protect childre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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