Ms Ghey said Brianna, who was murdered by teenagers Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, who were said to be obsessed with various graphic online content, was also viewing harmful content online.
She said: “It makes me feel a bit ashamed that I didn’t prevent her from looking.
“But when you’ve been through something like what we have been through, it could either break you or give you an extra level of mental resilience.”
Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, said the new legislation, which she described as putting “meat on the bones” of online safety, would be in place tomorrow, except it needed to be “bulletproof” for tech companies.
“These are companies that are multi-billion pound organisations – what we don’t want to do is do it so fast that it has lots of loopholes or they can easily litigate and it’s chewed up in the courts for years,” she said.
Ofcom chief Melanie Dawes said the regulator would be publishing details on which social media companies are working with the new legislation and which are not.
