By Henry Riley

I was shocked but not surprised by what our investigation found.

Back in March, I was horrified by some of the content we were being served – as a 13-year-old girl.

From content linked to depression, escalating to self-harm and eventually suicide, I couldn’t believe this content would be shown to a 13-year-old.

Fast forward six months, and the intense debate surrounding the measures and implications of the Online Safety Act has been ubiquitous in public discourse.

In that time, children’s safety on social media has dominated forums, debates and opinion polls – you’d expect, given the clamour to improve a dire situation, that things would have hopefully improved?

Alas, not really.

I set up my account as a 13-year-old boy, using an AI-generated image and a generic username created by ChatGPT.

We decided not to ‘like’ or specifically search for videos, instead we would just watch some of the........

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