Parliamentary hearing focused on online harms from X, TikTok and Meta including use of AI to ‘nudify’ young girls
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MPs have accused “complacent” social media companies of spreading Iran war misinformation, allowing political deepfakes that could threaten elections and still enabling the use of AI to make young girls appear naked.
In a testy parliamentary hearing that exposed deepening frustration among MPs with big tech firms, X, TikTok and Meta listed measures they had taken to tackle online harms, but were told: “You seem to be doing an awful lot, and it’s not making a jot of difference.”