Hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis have been killed in a surge in violence in the West Bank since the start of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas's deadly attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
Ofcomthat, in order to comply with the Online Safety Act, all websites on which pornographic material could be found must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques from July.
It said the two services it was investigating did not appear to have any effective age checking mechanisms.Firms found to be in breach of the Act face huge fines.The regulator said on Friday that many services publishing their own porn content had, as required, provided details of "highly effective age assurance methods" they were planning to implement.
They added that this "reassuringly" included some of the largest services that fall under the rules.It said a small number of services had also blocked UK users entirely to prevent children accessing them.
Itai Tech Ltd and Score Internet Group LLC did not respond to its request for information or show they had plans to introduce age checks, it added.
The "nudifying" technology that one of the company's platforms features involves the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to create the impression of having removed a person's clothing in an image or video."Whether this manipulation occurred in our country and all other participating and non-participating countries must be investigated."
A spokesperson for Flemish public broadcaster VRT said: "We have no indication that the counting of the televotes wasn't carried out correctly, but we are asking for complete transparency on the part of the EBU."The question is above all whether the current system guarantees a fair reflection of the opinion of viewers and listeners."
Finland's YLE said: "We will definitely ask the EBU whether it is time to update these rules or at least examine whether the current rules allow for abuses."On Tuesday, Dutch public broadcasters Avrotros and NPO issued a statement saying the contest was "increasingly influenced by societal and geopolitical tensions".