Speeches by Irons.

“Does that cost the BBC more money to use?”

“So at least for Meta, the platforms are not safe for children aged 13 and above, as opposed to TikTok, which is trying to make it safe for children of 13 and up.”

“Just so you are aware, your content is on the non-logged-in bit as well. If you go on to just the website, which is next to the slop and next to whatever else it may be, it is also there. The point that we are trying to make, I feel, is that broadcasters are jumping through hoops and doing the right thing when it comes…”

“Your content isn’t, but the platform that you put it on has been found to be so. Your walled garden of Sky Kids on Sky—your Sky platforms—I am sure has been created to the highest possible standards, but whether you are using it as a marketing tool or not, the content is on a platform that has been found to be intentio…”

“How do we help, basically?”

“Are your platforms safe for children aged 13 and above?”

“On YouTube.”

“What about a crazy AI video of something that did not happen but is not necessarily a news report? Who is checking that?”

“Who determines what is misinformation on your platform?”

“I broadened that out to include other content creators who are making higher-quality content. If you have content creators on your platform who you deem to be making higher-quality content, as Instagram does, are you promoting them—or will you in the future—above other stuff that perhaps is not as high-quality or is no…”

“I am an MP in Croydon, and the red versus blue trend had a significant impact on some local schools. One school had a lot of children in one year who did not turn up because they were so afraid of what was going to happen. I appreciate that this is about content on your platform. You are very clear that you do not want…”

“Definitely, the commentary on it was left on your platform for quite some time. The initial posts were taken down but the thing that you said creates the hype—people talking about the thing—that stuff was left up for quite some time. I want to pick up on one thing very quickly. You talked about the accounts that posted…”

“That is the point, isn’t it? Again, this is about young people’s content, where they find it and where they migrate to consume it. We can all accept that there are benefits to that and that groups can form, but we are talking about how we keep them safe and prevent the harms. I couldn’t really get to this point: are yo…”

“Who am I to tell you how to do anything in your business, but surely part of the negotiation with a teenager to have an account could be, “You need to have this linked to a parent.” Thirty-five might be a bit too high, but surely you can do things to ensure that it is not basically like sticking seatbelts in your car a…”

“What are the top three lessons that the UK Government can take from that when we are looking at legacy, when we are looking at not just having an event, but what it can do for communities afterwards or, as you said, in the lead up to those things?”

“There was a discussion earlier about trying not to have a strategy that is UK-wide that interrupts what you are doing and what Wales is doing, and they are clearly successful in their own right and any strategy should not undo what is working. However, if we have a clear measure and we are all looking at the same thing…”

“Does it inform decision-making and planning programmes?”

“Are you able to look at the community legacy of events?”

“I want to talk about the eventsIMPACT toolkit. Can you explain what the benefits are of using that?”

“We have had evidence that the UK Government do not use the same model. They do not use eventsIMPACT as much as Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Do you think that they are missing a trick there?”