Controversial web forum 4Chan has been fined £450,000 by regulator Ofcom for not protecting children from seeing pornography on its site and a further £70,000 for other online safety failures.

Investigation by Alan Rusbridger claims pattern of GB News breaching Ofcom broadcasting rules and becoming mouthpiece for ...

ITV‘s controversial husband-wife political interview has attracted more than 8,000 complaints to Ofcom, putting it second on the 2024 list. Social media took off when Good Morning Britain host Ed ...

U.K. media regulator Ofcom has found that five programs on the GB News channel featuring politicians as news presenters broke broadcasting due impartiality rules. The investigation, which was launched ...

The Online Safety Act 2023 (the Act), aims to protect people online, particularly children, and places more responsibility on online media platforms and search engines, which now have new legal duties ...

Since the Online Safety Act’s (OSA) first requirements came into force in January 2025, Ofcom has published its first confirmation decision of a financial penalty under the legislation (Confirmation ...

Urgent steps must be taken to ensure that public service media content is easy to find and discover on third-party platforms, under new recommendations from broadcast regulator Ofcom to secure the ...

Telecoms customers in the UK will soon gain quicker access to independent dispute resolution for unresolved complaints, following strengthened rules announced by Ofcom. The communications regulator is ...

Communications regulator Ofcom has announced “a package of reforms to the Universal Service Obligation” governing the delivery of mail to 32 million addresses across the UK. Ofcom’s announcement is ...

UK consumers would only have to wait six instead of eight weeks before they can escalate their unresolved telecoms complaints to an alternative dispute resolution scheme, under plans put forward by ...