More criminal offences have been added to the UK’s Online Safety Bill to force social media firms to quickly eliminate the “most harmful illegal content and criminal activity,” the government announced on Saturday. Offences including revenge porn, hate crime, fraud, the sale of illegal drugs or weapons, the promotion or facilitation of suicide, people smuggling, and sexual exploitation have been added to the list of extra priority illegal offences, which firms have to proactively filter or remove instead of acting after users report them. Terrorism and child sexual abuse were already included on the list. The government said that naming these offences on the face of the bill also enables the proposed regulator Ofcom to take faster enforcement action against firms that fail to remove them. Three new criminal offences, recommended by the Law Commission, are also to be added to the bill in an effort to make criminal law fit for …