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Highlights

• Ofcom found no significant change in the proportion of children encountering harmful content in the first nine months after new safety duties took effect in July 2025.
• Personalised recommendation feeds remain a major route through which children encounter pornography, suicide-related material and misogynistic content.
• Campaigners say stronger enforcement is needed, warning that a proposed social media ban for under-16s cannot replace existing online safety protections.

Ofcom has raised concerns about the effectiveness of the UK’s online safety rules after finding that children’s exposure to harmful social media content remained largely unchanged during the first nine months of the new requirements.