Senior social media bosses will face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to remove posts that glorify knife crime or advertise banned weapons under new legislation. Executives will be held personally liable for knife crime content on their platforms in the same way that the Online Safety Act holds them accountable for persistent abuses of their

Yvette Cooper has launched a crackdown on the ‘unacceptable use of social media and online marketplaces to market illegal weapons and glorify violence’

Fines of £10,000 for social media bosses who don't remove illegal knife adverts are being considered by the government.