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Meta claims they have 54 million active Instagram Teen Accounts. Any journalists want to ask them how many of them are finstas?

Pretty stunning testimony here from Sarah Wynn-Williams, the latest Meta whistleblower to come forward, to Sen. Sen. Marsha Blackburn: "Facebook was targeting 13-17-year-olds. It could identify when they were feeling worthless, or helpless... and share it with advertisers."

OK, I did the meme

Mark Zuckerberg just paid $23 million for this mansion in Northwest DC. He could’ve bought a nice pied a terre in the Navy Yard and spent the other $22 million fixing the flaws in Teen Accounts robertgurneyarchitect.com/album/30th-str…

‘I have no sympathy for the argument that one needs to undermine encryption in order to catch the bad guys’, says a tech CEO whose E2E platform is 29x more likely to be used by child sexual offenders

Today you’ll hear a lot of PR about Ofcom’s measures to prevent children being algorithmically recommended suicide and self-harm content. In the small print, Ofcom says these apparently sweeping measures… will cost tech firms £3,000 to £20k per annum. Molly Rose Foundation

'It won't be a game changer, it's a sea of missed opportunities.' Chief Executive of the Molly Rose Foundation Andy Burrows tells LBC News he doesn't have confidence in new rules set out by the social media regulator today. Steve Holden | Andy Burrows

Writing for The Telegraph, Ian Russell, father of Molly, said codes were so “overly cautious and risk averse” they would not stop the “deaths of children like my daughter.” Molly Rose Foundation Andy Burrows telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/2…

I am dismayed to say that the regulator’s timid approach announced yesterday has left me more disappointed than ever. We now need leadership to comprehensively tackle the preventable harm children will continue to face online. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/2…

Strong front pages today. It’s clear that Ofcom needs to move away from the ‘gamechanging’ PR strategy and start engaging with the deep concerns held widely across civil society.

As Meta’s chatbots are shown to lack basic safeguarding protections, a reminder that Ofcom has declined to *take a position* on whether AI chatbots can trigger the illegal safety duties in the #OnlineSafetyAct

This. The real risk isn’t to the existing #OnlineSafetyAct, but in the form of a chilling effect on plans to strengthen it (which we’re already seeing), & in how regulatory double jeopardy might apply once a trade deal is up and running.

A ‘digital age of consent’ isn’t a ban on social media for teenagers. Setting a higher age in Ireland made no difference to safety outcomes. And it is a mighty poor substitute for strengthening the #OnlineSafetyAct

If the Government wants to enact some bold policy that can show they’re on the side of hard-working families *and* deliver billions in annualised growth… fixing the #OnlineSafetyAct wouldn’t be a bad place to start.

Hi Nick Clegg - as the CEO of Molly Rose Foundation, a charity founded following the death of a teenager algorithmically recommended harmful content, is this book synopsis really accurate?

A stronger Online Safety Act would protect children and boost economic growth. So why is the government not seizing such an obvious opportunity? Writes Andy Burrows, Chief Executive of Molly Rose Foundation politicshome.com/opinion/articl…

Remember we once lived in a world where DC drama meant Obama wearing a tan suit?

Welcome comments from Peter Kyle on #BBCLauraK that he’s looking to strengthen online safety protections. But unless he fixes the structural issues that hamstring the #OnlineSafetyAct, a Code of Practice on addictive design will just be another sticking plaster Molly Rose Foundation

Important intervention in PMQs from Sorcha Eastwood MP urging the Government to introduce a Duty of Candour. The Government must go further to extend this to tech firms so bereaved families no longer experience delays & obfuscation & we all learn much needed lessons Molly Rose Foundation

Here are some more concerns about Peter Kyle’s approach as DSIT Secretary of State to add to our growing misgivings about his prioritising of Tech over online safety