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Senior managers can’t be the fall guys in the fight against online harm

Online financial fraud, and worse, is rife. But regulator's haven't hit on a perfect solution to tackle it.

Senior managers can’t be the fall guys in the fight against online harm
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Ben Packer is a dispute resolution partner at law firm Linklaters 

There is little doubt that content posted online can cause real-world harm. Posts promoting extremism have been linked to terrorism, campaigns of disinformation have dogged democratic elections, and charities have drawn attention to the horrifying volume of child sexual abuse imagery circulated online. Although we now have a global consensus that more needs to be done to combat these 'online harms', the key question that remains: how?

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