Overview
- Ministers have tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill creating a legal duty for major platforms to take down reported images within two days.
- Non‑compliant firms could face fines of up to 10% of qualifying worldwide revenue or have services blocked in the UK.
- Victims would report an image once, with platforms expected to remove matching content across services and prevent re‑uploads.
- The government will issue guidance for internet providers to block rogue sites that host the material outside the Online Safety Act’s reach.
- The push follows misuse of X’s Grok to generate sexualised deepfakes and builds on the recent criminalisation of creating or sharing such images.