UK's Child Safety Rules to Challenge Age Verification Process on X

NEW RULES FROM the UK's communications regulator will challenge the way Elon Musk's X platform and others handle age verification and pornographic content on their platforms.

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Ofcom unveiled on Thursday the final draft of its children's safety codes designed to protect users under the age of 18 from harmful content. The rules require social media services such as X to prevent children from seeing pornography by implementing "highly effective" age checks no later than July.

X is unique among mainstream social networks in that it allows users to post content that includes nudity and sexual behavior. Rivals such as Meta's Facebook and Instagram explicitly ban pornographic material. While X says that it restricts this type of content to users who say they're over 18, there aren't additional checks that would prevent someone from misrepresenting their age.