Ofcom is investigating TikTok’s age-assurance system. Britain’s online-safety regime has finally reached the question every platform would rather turn into fog.
Are there any peer reviewed large scale, properly researched over a several years academic papers upon the personal, familial and social costs and consequences of unregulated social media platforms in the past 20 years ? I presume there must some out there by now. It might be an idea for Ofcom officials looking into possible breaches of the 2025 UK regulations to read them in order to possess a fuller understanding of the deleterious effects of this scattergun deployment of algorithms before building any legal case.
Are there any peer reviewed large scale, properly researched over a several years academic papers upon the personal, familial and social costs and consequences of unregulated social media platforms in the past 20 years ? I presume there must some out there by now. It might be an idea for Ofcom officials looking into possible breaches of the 2025 UK regulations to read them in order to possess a fuller understanding of the deleterious effects of this scattergun deployment of algorithms before building any legal case.
https://research.vu.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/388484707/jamapediatrics_fassi_2024_Social_Media_Use_and_Internalizing_Symptoms_in_Clinical_and_Community_Adolescent_Samples.pdf
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/consultations/category-1-10-weeks/statement-protecting-children-from-harms-online/main-document/volume-2-the-causes-and-impacts-of-online-harms-to-children.pdf?v=396646
This is a good place to start and there are links within the PDF for more research. We have been gathering information.
DATASOURCES Peer-reviewed publications from MEDLINE, WebofScience,PsycInfo,
andScopus (initially reviewed in May 2022 and updated in October 2023) and preprints
from Europe PubMed Central (February2023) published in English between 2007 and 2023.