Unsurprisingly the Online Safety Act hasn't stopped social media companies pushing dangerous content

In case anyone was in danger of thinking that the Online Safety Act has solved the harms caused by the big social media platforms:

Nearly half of girls and a third of all teenagers saw suicide, self-harm and eating disorder content on social media in a week, a study shows.

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Or:

X has refused to take down dozens of social media posts reported as “hate, abuse or harassment” in which prominent UK politicians, including Kemi Badenoch], have been racially abused.

In May, researchers from the social inclusion thinktank British Future reported 30 posts from this year in which the Conservative party leader was called the N-word. In each case the researchers used the platform’s “hate, abuse or harassment” reporting option. X refused to act in the majority of cases, despite repeated requests

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It remains astonishing that some of these platforms are allowed to exist in their current form. I mean, our government, including the politicians specifically being regularly abused, continues to use X for official communications.