Independent, UK-based organisation concerned about the degradation in online discourse and its implications for democracy.
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Important and welcome move from @peterkyle to quickly use his powers under the #OnlineSafetyAct to set ambitious new strategic priorities for @Ofcom. This is only a downpayment on what’s ultimately needed, but note the shifting language on laws ‘coming up short.’
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Brilliant guest post from @deathtospinach, author of "Keanu Reeves is not in love with you" and scourge of romance fraudsters - explaining why fraudsters love fake social media accounts, and why the platforms (and @ofcom) must do more to stop them
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Platforms aren’t doing any of these things themselves. Becky notes that under the OSA Ofcom has new powers to force them. But it's taking too long. And there's a risk of a "mind-boggling fail" in Ofcom's approach: leaving out dating sites
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It's a real coup for us at @InternetClean to get a guest post from @deathtospinach
You can imagine how long it took us to persuade her that we are legit.....
Brilliant guest post from @deathtospinach, author of "Keanu Reeves is not in love with you" and scourge of romance fraudsters - explaining why fraudsters love fake social media accounts, and why the platforms (and @ofcom) must do more to stop them
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"Without sufficiently clear and robust guidance, we fear more of the same delay, obfuscation, platitudes and half-measures which have characterised platforms’ (in)action to date."
@Kinsellas's recommendations for Ofcom's user verification guidance 👇
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We need to press on with ensuring that the Online Safety Act achieves its ambitions, to make the UK a safe online environment.
"Without sufficiently clear and robust guidance, we fear more of the same delay, obfuscation, platitudes and half-measures which have characterised platforms’ (in)action to date."
@Kinsellas's recommendations for Ofcom's user verification guidance 👇
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Great summation from @davidbabbs of why @Ofcom’s #OnlineSafetyAct draft codes risks failing to disrupt the scale of preventable illegal harm that Parliament envisaged, potentially for the first few years after taking effect
"So far Ofcom has done a better job of analysing the risk factors which enable illegal harms to proliferate on social media than it has of making recommendations to prevent them"
Initial analysis of Ofcom's illegal harms consultation from @davidbabbs
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"In 2023 we finally made some decisive steps towards establishing the regulatory framework to force social media platforms to clean up their acts"
Clean Up The Internet's founder, @Kinsellas, looks back on the past year.
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With the #OnlineSafetyBill finally completing its passage through parliament this week, Clean Up The Internet's founder @Kinsellas shares some reflections on how we got here.
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Perhaps not yet the beginning of the end, but at least the end of the beginning.
With the #OnlineSafetyBill finally completing its passage through parliament this week, Clean Up The Internet's founder @Kinsellas shares some reflections on how we got here.
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The #OnlineSafetyBill is better because of the campaigning role played by those with lived experience. This is a lovely blog with insights for all of us who’ve worked on it (& should be read by the various critics who question the role of survivors in the legislative process)
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“I would ask where are these companies going to go because this is a movement across the globe.” Strong and hugely welcome words from @michelledonelan to messaging companies on their empty threats to leave the U.K., their 2nd biggest G7 market, over the #OnlineSafetyBill
Social media firms must deactivate underaged children’s accounts or risk “humongous” fines, the Technology Secretary @michelledonelan has warned telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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… which means costs associated with identifying and dealing with it are rising
The barriers to entry when it comes to online manipulation are falling. techpolicy.press/researchers…
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Interesting from @Londonstani et al @valent_projects - large numbers of probably inauthentic accounts significantly amplified authentic anti-ULEZ sentiment in the run-up to recent by-elections.
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Terrifying. And absolutely not the time for any government anywhere in the world to row back on clean air and environmental policies. Least of all because a few hundred people voted for silly parties in a by election where a governing party campaigned in opposition to its policy
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Reminder that there are some good features of the OSB, which could be further improved. Great article by @c_blackhurst
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📢📄New report from us, published today:
Making it by faking it: How fraudsters exploit fake social media accounts to scam UK users - and how strengthening the Online Safety Bill’s User Verification Duty would help stop them
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Chris is right: just a few refinements to the Online Safety Bill could hugely assist in the fight against online fraud.
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The UK's weak digital bill will fail to deliver knockout blow to online fraudsters thenationalnews.com/opinion/… via @TheNationalNews
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The UK's weak digital bill will fail to deliver knockout blow to online fraudsters thenationalnews.com/opinion/… via @TheNationalNews
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So this FAKE ACCOUNT... xitter.cf/MartinXLewis promoting crypto has a blue tick? Lets see whether it is taken down when I report this impersonation.