Online Safety: Children

Part of Home Department – in the House of Commons at on 25 November 2024.

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Photo of Jess Phillips Jess Phillips The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

My hon. Friend raises an extremely serious issue. I assure him that we very much share his concerns. The Home Secretary has met representatives from Meta and our officials are in regular contact. What we say in all those discussions is very simple. For years, Meta has been an industry leader when it comes to preventing and detecting child sex abuse online, and what we all want to see is it continuing to play that positive role and not—as my hon. Friend fears—going in the opposite direction.