{"id":63831,"date":"2026-06-09T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/uk-regulator-orders-social-media-firms-to-adopt-measures-to-stop-viral-illegal-content-4\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:09:49","slug":"uk-regulator-orders-social-media-firms-to-adopt-measures-to-stop-viral-illegal-content-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/09\/uk-regulator-orders-social-media-firms-to-adopt-measures-to-stop-viral-illegal-content-4\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom move follows concerns about misinformation and online claims over police response to Henry Nowak stabbing<\/p>\n<p>Social media companies have been ordered to have emergency measures in place to stop illegal content going viral, as regulators battle to stop the type of misinformation spiral that circulated after the 2024 summer riots.<\/p>\n<p>Sites such as X, formerly Twitter, and TikTok will have to have a \u201ccrisis protocol\u201d in place to intervene when the sharing of dangerous content begins to rise.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2026\/jun\/09\/uk-regulator-ofcom-social-media-firms-adopt-measures-stop-viral-illegal-content\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofcom move follows concerns about misinformation and online claims over police response to Henry Nowak stabbing Social media companies have been ordered to have emergency measures in place to stop illegal content going viral, as regulators battle to stop the type of misinformation spiral that circulated after the 2024 summer riots. Sites such as X, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}