Ofcom has urged tech companies to take “practical action against online misogynistic abuse, pile-ons, stalking and intimate image abuse”.

The communications regulator, which is responsible for ensuring everything from our postal service to our TV responsibly delivers safe content, has suggested that these groups need to go “above and beyond what is needed to comply with their legal duties under the Online Safety Act” to achieve true digital equality.

They point out that 99% of intimate images reported to the Revenge Porn Helpline were of women; 99% of deepfake image abuse involves women; nearly 70% of boys aged 11-14 have been exposed to misogynistic content online.

Those are only a few of the issues the regulator raised before announcing their “five-point plan to hold sites and apps to account on protecting women and girls online”.

How will Ofcom hold tech companies to account?

There are five broad steps the regulator wants to take, though they also have many, many other........

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