UK’s New Child Safety Rules Set to Challenge Age Verification Process on X

(Bloomberg) — New rules from the UK’s communications regulator are set to challenge the way Elon Musk’s X platform and others handle age verification and pornographic content on their platforms.

Ofcom on Thursday is set to unveil the final draft of its children’s safety codes designed to ensure that UK users under the age of 18 are protected from viewing certain kinds of harmful content. According to guidance already set out, the rules will require services such as X to prevent children from seeing pornography as well as suicide and self-harm content by implementing “highly effective” age checks no later than July.