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Exclusive: Social media firms to be placed under statutory duty of care to protect children from online harms

S ocial media firms will be placed under a new statutory duty of care, and will be fined, prosecuted or could even be barred from operating in the UK if they fail to protect their users from online harms, The Daily Telegraph can reveal.

The Government will create a new independent regulator to enforce the duty of care with far-reaching powers to require firms to take down illegal or harmful material under new legally-binding codes.

This ranges from illegal material such as sex abuse to potentially legal but harmful cyber-bullying, self harm, violence and porn.

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