Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion, plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit...Read More
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California. States are seeking extensive financial damages that could, in theory, total as much as $1.4 trillion, plus changes to how the company operates Facebook and Instagram. The lawsuit...Read More
“JiDion,” whose real name is Jidon Adams, told Local 3 News about an incident Tuesday on Greystone Drive in Catoosa County, where a suspect named Marcus Hard took an Uber across state lines to meet a 13-year-old decoy. https://www.local3news.com/local-news/youtuber-confronts-man-who-he-says-wanted-to-meet-teen-for-sexual-purposes-in-catoosa/article_ac1d4b0b-b5e7-44d3-8504-a00b609539a7.html Source link ——————————————————– Click Here For The Original Source.Read More
Years into Australia’s quest to get teens off social media, the Albanese government is suddenly in a hurry. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese last month declared it was “outrageous” that the Coalition and the Greens had voted to scrutinise proposed reforms to social media minimum age law at an inquiry. It was oddly urgent for a...Read More
The ruling has been hailed as a powerful warning to predators who prey on children. A seven‑year‑old girl’s brutal murder in Charl Cilliers has ended with justice delivered, as the Mpumalanga High Court in Breyten imposed two life sentences on her killer. The ruling has been hailed as a powerful warning to predators who prey...Read More
BBB.org, Sunday, August 16, 2026 8:38 PM The worldwide trend of banning social media for children has been blocked in France, BBC reports. The country’s Constitutional Council struck down a ban for the under-15 age group on the grounds that it infringed freedom of expression. French President Emmanual Macron has asked Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to...Read More
Need to know A new lesson on Coco’s law has been launched as part of the Garda Schools Programme Jackie Fox who’s daughter Nicole (CoCo) was the victim of bullying which ultimatly led to her death was at the launch marking the addition of a new lesson on Coco’s Law to An Garda Síochána’s Schools...Read More
Police in Fort Payne are saying the school-wide lockdown that occurred on Monday morning is due to a false alarm or hoax, stemming from a call in which someone claiming to be a student threatened harm to themselves and others. The short-lived lockdown ended on Monday just after noon, with police and school officials stating...Read More
Summary: Researchers provided robust, population-level evidence connecting high-volume social media consumption to subsequent declines in adolescent mental health. The investigation tracked nearly 1,200 participants from ages 9 to 19 within the Child to Adult Transition Study (CATS) in Melbourne. The international research coalition discovered that adolescents spending two or more hours per day on social...Read More
New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London has found that only two per cent of young people who experience cyberbullying by the age 18 report exclusively being abused online. The research, published in Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, highlights how cyberbullying is rarely experienced in isolation from...Read More
