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over 1 year ago
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Naked pictures of girls are being swapped online during class without their consent, MPs told

Soma Sara, founder of the Everyone's Invited website, said that young people were using AirDrop and Google Drive to s...

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almost 2 years ago
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'Epidemic of misogynist abuse' sent via Instagram direct messages, new report finds

Researchers working with women including Amber Heard and Rachel Riley find abuse via DMs was ignored by the platform ...

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about 2 years ago
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Allow social media users to block anonymous users and opt out of harmful content, MPs say

New changes to the Online Safety Bill will give users the power to block users who choose not to link their accounts ...

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about 2 years ago
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Teens 'desensitised to violence' as Met Police deleted 695 videos from social media in 2021

In 2017 the Met ordered social media sites to delete 13 videos inciting gang violence – rising to 695 in 2021, accord...

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about 2 years ago
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Online Safety Bill in need of urgent overhaul to protect the vulnerable, warn MPs

Legislation designed to protect society's most vulnerable online is in need of urgent overhauls to be effective, a ne...

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about 2 years ago
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Make tech giants criminally liable from start of Online Safety Bill, MPs urge

Forthcoming legislation designed to hold Big Tech to account currently contains provisions for the imposition of crim...

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about 2 years ago
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Supervise 7-to-10-year-olds online to protect against predators, warn child safety experts

The Internet Watch Foundation has reported a 186 per cent increase in photos and videos involving seven to 10-year olds.

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about 2 years ago
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Online safety rows, NFT boom and metaverse scepticism, here's what tech will look like in 2022

2021 demonstrated how Big Tech is failing its most vulnerable users. Will 2022 see the biggest players being held to ...

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over 2 years ago
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Twitter bans sharing photos and videos of people without their consent

Twitter has updated its policies to take down photos or videos of people who request their removal

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over 2 years ago
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School teachers targeted in TikTok videos featuring pornography and 'disgraceful abuse'

One "devastated" teacher has taken time off school after he was falsely accused of paedophilia in a video posted on T...

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over 2 years ago
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What it's like to remove child sexual abuse imagery from the net in the 'UK's toughest job'

'It’s immensely rewarding work and that feels like a bit of a luxury. It's a great thing, a very precious thing'

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over 2 years ago
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Facebook systems could fail to catch extreme content written in UK English, says whistleblower

Facebook's failure to account for content written in languages other than American English could be allowing extreme ...

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over 2 years ago
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Online anonymity is not the problem - it’s the lack of consequences for the abusers

While it's tempting to see ending online anonymity as a one-stop-shop solution to online abuse, it poses more problem...

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over 2 years ago
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Online grooming of young girls soars by 60% in three years as four in five victims are female

Young girls have been the victims in the majority of recorded online grooming offences over the past three years, the...

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over 2 years ago
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Social media giants don't remove abuse, former 'Love Island' contestant tells MP

Social media firms have been criticised for the amount of abuse online

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over 2 years ago
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Deaths from anti-vaxx misinformation 'greater than any terrorist organisation', expert warns

Imran Ahmed will warn MPs not to miss the opportunity to regulate Big Tech by failing to hold social media giants to ...

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over 2 years ago
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Anton Ferdinand says he fears high-profile footballer may kill themselves over racist abuse

Former footballers Anton Ferdinand, Lianne Sanderson and Marvin Sordell gave evidence to the Home Affairs Committee

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over 2 years ago
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Tackling racism in football starts with the social platforms that allow it to thrive

Football racists continue to hide in plain sight on social media. Introducing real consequences for their behaviour c...

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over 2 years ago
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Why Twitter's 'dislike button' could heighten the abuse it seeks to squash

Twitter's experiments with downvoting could gift trolls with another tool to silence and abuse marginalised users

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over 2 years ago
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Instagram fails to take down more than 94% of racist posts targeting England footballers

Racist abuse targeting England's Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka has been allowed to remain online desp...

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over 2 years ago
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Ex-Love Islander Amy Hart calls for crackdown on trolls after Chloe Burrows sent death threats

Chloe Burrows' family and friends shared a statement on her Instagram Stories on Thursday, saying they have 'had enou...

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almost 3 years ago
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New taskforce formed to prevent the most serious child sexual abuse from being shared online

They will view and create hashes for the pictures - unique digital fingerprints consisting of an alphanumeric string ...

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almost 3 years ago
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Black and LGBTQ+ authors say they're being harassed on Goodreads and trolled with one-star book r...

They feel the platform has not implemented adequate moderation or community guidelines to stop racism, transphobia an...

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almost 3 years ago
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Link social media accounts to real-world ID to stamp out online abuse, IT experts claim

Linking social media accounts to real-world IDs would lead to a dramatic reduction in abuse, the BCS has claimed

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almost 3 years ago
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Instagram to start filtering out abusive DMs and misspellings of abusive comments

Instagram is introducing new tools to filter out abusive DMs before they arrive in a user's direct message requests

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about 3 years ago
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Facebook's guidelines allow users to call for the death of politicians and other public figures

High-profile Facebook users are not afforded the same protections on the platform as regular, non-famous users, accor...

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about 3 years ago
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Social media giants 'weighing up single method of reporting abuse'

The Web Foundation has held discussions with major social media platforms and discussed a single, more coherent metho...

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