Big social media companies will be required to assess risks of the types of legal harms against adults which could arise on their services, and will have to set out how they will deal with them - and enforce these terms consistently.
The bill will give new powers to Ofcom, which will be able to request information from companies, and executives who do not comply could face up to two years in prison within two months of the bill becoming law. Children's charity Barnardo's welcomed the announcement sites showing pornographic material would have to check the ages of users.
But shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell likened said the bill's delays had "allowed the Russian regime's disinformation to spread like wildfire online".
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