Policy Watch|World
UK age checks: Ofcom has fined three porn sites for failing to verify ages and is now investigating Pornhub, TikTok and Meta
Ofcom’s 15 October Online Safety bulletin lists fines of £630,000 (fapello.com), £730,000 (Xgroovy.com) and £80,000 (First Time Videos) for failing to use ‘highly effective age assurance’, provisional decisions against four more providers, and open investigations into Pornhub’s owner Aylo, TikTok and, from October, Meta over Instagram’s ‘Instants’. Ofcom is also assessing what age checks would work for a planned under-16 social media ban.
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