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Some parents say online harassment of girls ‘so standard it’s not noteworthy’, study finds | UK News
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Online harassment of girls is “so standard” that some parents see it as “normal”, a study has found. Online safety charity Internet Matters found that 77% of girls aged 13 to 16 in the UK report digital experiences that are or may be harmful. The survey also found that parents “are coming to regard online…
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Parents warned after cracking eggs on toddlers’ heads in TikTok trend | World News
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TikTok’s latest trend, parents cracking an egg on a young child’s head, has been criticised by medical experts over the potential damage it could do. The videos, many of which use the hashtag #eggprank, usually show a parent with a young child in the kitchen. The parent takes a raw egg and tells the child…
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TikTok to let parents filter out videos they don’t want their children to see | Science & Tech News
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TikTok has launched the ability for parents and guardians to filter out videos they don’t want their children to see. The feature is an addition to the app’s family pairing functionality, which allows adults to link their account to their teenager’s for control of settings like screen time limits. TikTok‘s users could already dictate content…
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Bereaved parents whose children took own lives demand more access to content they were exposed to online | Science & Tech News
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Bereaved parents of children who took their own lives want authorities to take online histories into account when determining their cause of death. The mother of Archie Battersbee, who died in August 2022 after a “prank or experiment” that went wrong, joined other families to demand more access to content their children were exposed to…
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Online Safety Bill: Parents assured legislation won’t just target illegal content after amendment criticism | Science & Tech News
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Parents have been assured that the Online Safety Bill will not just hold social media companies responsible for illegal content on their platforms, but any material which can “cause serious trauma” to children. In an open letter, Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan sought to assuage fears that the long-delayed legislation had been watered down after finally…
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Sam Bankman-Fried: Arrested crypto boss hugs parents as he is denied bail over ‘one of biggest financial frauds in US history’ | Science & Tech News
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Former cryptocurrency exchange boss Sam Bankman-Fried hugged his parents after being denied bail on charges relating to “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”. The 30-year-old founder of FTX, has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with fraud and violating campaign finance laws. He is also being sued. Following…
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Parents urged to vaccinate under-fives against flu amid surge in infections | UK News
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Parents have been urged to vaccinate their children against the flu following a surge in serious cases among under-fives. Flu hospitalisations in young children are nearly 20 times as high as last year, figures suggest. This week, 230 under-fives were hospitalised, compared to just 12 at the same time last year. Estimates show hundreds more…
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Snapchat launches safety feature to give parents limited access to children’s accounts | Science & Tech News
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Snapchat is launching a new feature which will give parents some access into their children’s activities on the platform. It requires the child’s account to agree to link up with an account belonging to someone over 25, but the Family Centre tool will show parents their child’s friends list and when they last spoke to…