The Home Secretary has written to firms including Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta telling them to urgently review content.
Britain's Home Secretary announced there would be a number of new local inquiries into decade-old allegations of child grooming, weeks after Elon Musk accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failings.
The UK's interior minister, Yvette Cooper, announced on Thursday that a budget of nearly 6 million euros would be allocated to fund new local investigations into the scandal that has affected dozens of towns in central and northern England since 2000.
Yvette Cooper has sent a letter to leading tech giants warning that their failure to remove ‘dangerous and illegal’ content like the videos seen by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana could ‘inspire other attacks’.
Home Secretary warns that other attacks could be inspired by material that Axel Rudakubana is known to have accessed online
Elon Musk forced the Government into commissioning new grooming gangs inquiries, a minister has admitted. Chris Bryant, a junior culture minister, said it was “certainly true” that the billionaire owner of X had “expedited” fresh investigations into the scandal.
The government today announced a new national-level "rapid audit" of grooming gangs, plus up to five new local inquiries. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says the government will launch a national three-month audit, led by Dame Louise Casey, which will examine "cultural and societal drivers" of child sexual exploitation.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has announced plans for a nationwide review of grooming gang evidence and five government-backed local inquiries. She stopped short of launching a statutory national inquiry, as called for by the Conservatives and some Labour MPs, but this marks a clear shift in the government's position.
The home secretary announced a plan for local grooming gang inquiries and backing for victims following pressure to support them and find out why the scandal happened.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hit back at Elon Musk, following a barrage of ... furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk. In a statement to lawmakers, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the government has also authorized what ...
Britain will back new local inquiries into child sexual abuse across the country, the government said on Thursday, after weeks of criticism by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk stirred renewed concern about a decades-old scandal over grooming gangs.
She called on Elon Musk ’s X, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, TikTok, Google and YouTube to “urgently review” material accessed by killer Axel Rudakubana - which she said is still available online. In a joint letter with Technology Secretary Peter Kyle Ms Cooper said the ease with which “such dangerous and illegal” content can be viewed was “unacceptable”.