Britain's media regulator Ofcom on Monday set social media and other online platforms a March 31 deadline to submit a risk assessment around how likely users are to encounter illegal content on their sites.

Ofcom has sent formal requests to several prominent social media platforms and 'smaller but risky' websites asking them to supply illegal harms risk assessments by 31 March.

The U.K.'s communication services' regulator Ofcom has set a March 31 deadline for online services providers to submit illegal harms risk assessments, failing which they may face enforcement action. The British regulator Ofcom brought the country's online safety regulation into force in December last year after publishing its first codes of