Apr 15, 2026

After the searches, nearly a third of the algorithmically recommended content on the teenage users’ feeds was explicit, with some appearing to depict children and animals, CCDH said.
The accounts were also able to join adult sexual communities and received unsolicited explicit messages. A feature that restricted direct messages was easily turned off by the researchers.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/social-media/article/x-porn-teenager-online-safety-act-s9f8xbnvw