Social media companies could be fined 10% of global revenue, government warns

During digital, culture, media and sport questions, Labour’s Catherine West asked under-secretary Chris Philp how the government are tackling social media companies’ failures to address their platform’s cause of suicide and eating disorders.

Philp welcomed the “important issue”, telling the House of Commons that children are covered by the harms that social media companies have a “duty” to protect against.

The under-secretary explained that new measures mean that breaches of these duties include “fines of up to 10% of global revenue”.