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Social media companies will be forced to take quicker action to stop users inciting violence and disorder on their platforms under changes to the UK’s online safety laws.

Ofcom has fined the operators of an online suicide forum £950,000 after concluding it failed to protect people in the UK from illegal content encouraging and assisting suicide.

Ruling likely to put European Commission on a collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump.

Both platforms now have time to respond to the findings or face a penalty of up to 6% of their global annual revenue.

“I needed to watch this stuff. And over time you... get desensitized... and a lot of the time it gets worse until people start accessing illegal content.”