In a change to the online safety bill, tech firms will have to proactively prevent material that facilitates animal torture from being posted
Social media firms must remove animal cruelty content from their platforms or face the threat of substantial fines under the latest change to the online safety bill.
Ministers said causing unnecessary suffering to an animal will become a priority offence in the bill, which means tech firms will have to proactively prevent such material from reaching users. Failure to do so could result in a fine of £18m, or up to 10% of a company’s global revenue.
