🌐 On #SaferInternetDay, the #EUKids Online team shares new findings on how children use and think about generative AI 🤖👧🧒 — moving from hype to action. 🔗 Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/202... #GenerativeAI #Childhood #DigitalSafety @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @mariyastoilova.bsky.social

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so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

@ofcom.bsky.social has today published an "update" on its investigation into #Grok and the #ICO has announced it's opening one of its own. Here's our response on why both regulators need to up their game and why gaps in the #onlinesafetyact must be filled. www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/osa...

Quite the conveyor belt of witnesses giving evidence in the first two sessions of the #cybersecurity and resilience Bill Committee today, with #DSIT Minister Kanishka Narayan rounding up before the Committee starts its scrutiny on Thursday.

Today, we're joining @osanetwork.bsky.social to publish a code that will strengthen the Online Safety Act & protect elections in the UK. CCDH has repeatedly shown how unaccountable social media platforms enable abuse and violence against elected officials and candidates. Read more 👇

🆕 Today we're publishing a code for improved #onlinesafety for election candidates, developed with experts at @demos-uk.bsky.social @counterhate.com @isdglobal.org @jocoxfoundation.bsky.social @wfd.org @fawcettsociety.bsky.social @fullfact.org & #ElectHer 1/2 www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/imp...

This is effectively a government backed advertising campaign for Big Tech for a product that doesn't work properly.

Great to be joined by cross-party Parliamentarians, DSIT Minister Kanishka Narayan and our fabulous civil society partners in Parliament today to launch our 10-point plan to strengthen the #onlinesafetyact - there's much to do but the commitment to working with us to do it was hugely welcome.

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

If you ever wonder, what is it that Musk doesn’t want you to know… here’s your answer. Another brilliant bit of research by @counterhate.com www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

🚨 Lord Nash won the vote on his #socialmedia amendment in the Lords last night - read the transcript here, including Baroness Kidron on #safetybydesign & support from Lord Clement-Jones & Viscount Colville for our proposals to strengthen the #onlinesafetyact 👇🏻 hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-0...

Well said, Baroness Kidron in @houseoflords.parliament.uk #socialmedia debate tonight. #onlinesafetyact www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...?

Last week, in response to international pressure, X announced it was restricting Grok's ability to edit people into revealing clothes. That has not stopped the rampant trend of sexual harassment via Grok edits. The culture around GenAI is firmly rooted in abuse. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-will-...

"We believe the most efficient and effective way to stop the tech companies continuing to harm our children - and many others - is to strengthen and enforce the existing #onlinesafetyact." Our response to the Government's #socialmedia consultation today.👇🏻 www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/str...

Detail from #DSIT on the proposals "to boost children’s wellbeing online" which is out for consultation today, including a proposed ban on under-16s access to #socialmedia. We'll be publishing our response later and will share comment and reaction here during the day. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Times now picking up the same intell about consultation coming soon on social media restrictions for kids www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Downing St is poised to launch a consultation into social media restrictions on teenagers, here’s our scoop from Saturday’s FT: www.ft.com/content/acbe...

This figure (and the full article) tells you a lot about the grip the tech sector and its lobbyists have on UK government thinking and just how hard it is for civil society to get its voice heard. #onlinesafetyact 👇🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

💥 The Guardian, BBC News and Telegraph have corrected stories claiming research showed screen time damages toddlers’ speech, after @fullfact.org got in touch. (The study showed a correlation between screen time and smaller vocab, not that one caused the other.) fullfact.org/health/scree...

No surprise to learn X is still permitting users to post these images generated by Grok despite claiming it had taken action. Enough is enough. @ofcom.bsky.social MUST use its powers to shut this down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

As of now, that's still possible in the UK.

This is a welcome development. However, our formal investigation remains ongoing. We are working round the clock to progress this and get answers into what went wrong and what’s being done to fix it.

🧐 #grok #onlinesafetyact

Starmer vows action against Elon Musk's X: "The actions of Grok and X are disgusting... We're absolutely determined to take action... We're not going to back down. They must act. We will take the necessary measures. We will strengthen existing laws.. This is weaponising images of women & children."

Transcript of yesterday's statement on X and subsequent Commons debate here. Good to see the cross-party consensus about the seriousness of the issue, the Govt's action and the need for speed from Ofcom - with one very notable exception. 👇🏻 #onlinesafetyact hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026...

👇🏻 #onlinesafetyact www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keir Starmer hasn’t posted on X since 8th Jan, when the government first intervened in the Grok AI images scandal (but has posted on Facebook and Instagram in that period)

Shad Tech Sec, Julia Lopez MP, despite (apparently) agreeing with gov't online portection aim, started a BIZARRE apologia/whatabout over X that equated Grok to "crude drawings", drew in Iran, rape gangs, immigration, trans rights, and even blamed children for "sharing their images too freely". 👀 ~AA

Ministerial statement on X now confirmed for this afternoon: whatson.parliament.uk

@ofcom.bsky.social has launched an investigation into X. What happens next? Here's our expert legal adviser, Prof Lorna Woods OBE, on exactly that question. #onlinesafetyact www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/ofc...

We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery. We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK. 🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

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Happy Monday, everyone. Will @ofcom.bsky.social take robust #onlinesafetyact enforcement action on X? Will Ministers stand up to Musk? We can't help with those predictions. But our newsletter can bring you right up to speed with where we are this morning. ⬇️ us4.campaign-archive.com?e=12547a4002...

As covered by @politico.com #MorningTech, we've written to the PM to call on him to end the use of X for Government communications in light of the appalling generation of sexualised images of women and girls via the platform's #Grok chatbot. Read more here⬇️ www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/let...

Op-ed from #DSIT Secretary of State Liz Kendall in the Telegraph: "This is a moment for MPs on all sides of the House to stand up for decency and call out platforms which allow explicit, degrading and illegal content. It’s time to choose a side."⬇️ #onlinesafetyact www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

Dame Caroline Dinenage tells the BBC that "there are doubts as to whether the #onlinesafetyact actually has the power to regulate functionality." It does. But @ofcom.bsky.social chose not to use it - writing a set of weak codes and promising further iterations idc. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Indonesia temporarily blocks access to Grok over sexualised images reut.rs/4jvw0JI

It seems like everyone think that Ofcom has the power to take down X, except Ofcom...

Organisationally we intentionally speak to the positive but that is consistently tempered in our current macro environment - we are challenged daily in the divisive, algorithmically charged world and that is taking its toll on women. There is a lot to do to Fix the System. This will help.

I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.

As covered by @politico.com #MorningTech, we've written to the PM to call on him to end the use of X for Government communications in light of the appalling generation of sexualised images of women and girls via the platform's #Grok chatbot. Read more here⬇️ www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/let...

The Government has been pointing the finger at @ofcom.bsky.social all week (to no avail) when challenged on the need for action on Grok. But in the meantime it shows no sign of bringing the new offence of sharing sexually explicit deepfakes into force. #onlinesafetyact www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

💯 this from @lewisgoodall.com @newsagents.bsky.social "The calculation [the Government] has made is that the dignity of potentially thousands, if not more, of women, girls, children is a price worth paying not to piss off Trump and Musk." #vawg #onlinesafetyact www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the biggest creator of sexualized deepfake images

🆕Must-read analysis from our expert legal adviser, Prof Lorna Woods OBE, on #grok, criminal offences, the civil law and the #onlinesafetyact ⬇️ www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/gro...

Things stepping up. ICCL and Digital Rights Ireland have written to the Garda Commissioner calling for an urgent investigation of X.

Good to see a Cabinet Minister call the unlawful sexual harassment on X "appalling": She backs Ofcom "to take any enforcement action it deems necessary". Ofcom asked X to urgently advise on how it is protecting users from its own production of unlawful content at scale www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has generated a flood of sexualized images of women and minors posted to the social media platform X. Regulators around the world are responding by opening inquiries, demanding takedowns, and threatening legal action. Tech Policy Press is tracking such responses.