Avoid Online Unhappiness: Personal/Family Issues

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• ⚙️ Self-Assessment Tool

  Test whether your gambling is a problem

• 🔊 Gambling: A Game of Life and Death

  Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family.

• 📌 Childline: Online gaming

  Advice on staying safe, whether you play games online, by yourself or on your mobile

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 Social media challenges: Hoax online challenges and what to do

  Many challenges have been exposed as fake accounts and false stories in the past, even those with 'origin stories' where the history of how the game began is told in great detail

• 📌 4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges

  why do young people take challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?

• 📌 NyQuil chicken isn’t actually a TikTok trend

  Discusses the difference between a viral trend and just one person posting a meme that goes viral

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📺 E-Safety Tips for Parents: 6-10 years old

  E-Safety Tips for Parents: 6-10

• 📺 InternetMatters.Org: E-Safety Tips for Parents: 11-13

  E-Safety Tips for Parents: 11-13

• 📺 E-Safety Tips for Parents: Teens

  InternetMatters.Org: E-Safety Tips for Parents: Teens

• 📌 Keeping under fives safe online

  8 top tips that you can put in place at home, to help keep your youngest children safe online.

• 📺 E-Safety Tips for Parents: Under 5s

  InternetMatters.Org: E-Safety Tips for Parents: Under 5

• ⚙️ Self-Assessment Tool

  Test whether your gambling is a problem

• 🔊 Gambling: A Game of Life and Death

  Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family.

• 📌 Childline: Online gaming

  Advice on staying safe, whether you play games online, by yourself or on your mobile

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📺 Swag Academy: 9-5 jobs are a scam, so is university

  Coffezilla commentary about an influencer's YouTube video claiming that if you are ambitious you shouldn't get an education

• 📺 Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World?

  Is Andrew Tate behind a secret society that grooms women into online sex work? And could someone else be behind him? Matt Shea reveals the truth behind Tate and his 'War Room.'

• 🔊 Living with Andrew Tate

  A British woman tells File on 4 about her relationship with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate

• 📺 Coffeezilla on Andrew Tate

  I joined Andrew Tate's cult and it was worse than I thought

• 📌 YouTube Influencers Promoting Junk Food To Kids

  YouTube banned food ads on children's content, but a University of Connecticut study says snacks & junk food are still featured in content for kids

• 📺 I scammed this influencer so he couldn't scam you

  Coffeezilla: Putting an influencer to the ultimate test, by offering them money to promote what is an OBVIOUS fake NFT website,

• 📌 Kim Kardashian hit with £1.12m penalty for crypto social media posts

  Kim Kardashian has been hit with a $1.26m penalty for promoting crypto currency EthereumMax on social media without revealing she had been paid to do so.

• 📌 Social media challenges: Hoax online challenges and what to do

  Many challenges have been exposed as fake accounts and false stories in the past, even those with 'origin stories' where the history of how the game began is told in great detail

• 📌 4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges

  why do young people take challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?

• 📌 NyQuil chicken isn’t actually a TikTok trend

  Discusses the difference between a viral trend and just one person posting a meme that goes viral

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

• 📌 My AI: Snapchat chatbot introduced to mixed reviews

  It's pinned to the top of users' chat feeds. Only paid subscribers can remove it. Snap admitted the tool may include biased, incorrect, harmful, or misleading content

• 📌 What Makes TikTok so Addictive?

  An Analysis of the Mechanisms Underlying the World’s Latest Social Media Craze

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 Is TikTok Safe for Kids?

  TikTok can be a dangerous place, especially for teenagers. Here's how you can help protect them

• 📌 TikTok's In-App Browser Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says

  The app inserts code that can track activity on sites its browser is used to access, says a privacy researcher

• 📌 33% of US TikTok users say they regularly get their news on the app

  Data suggests TikTok has grown from being just an entertainment platform

• 📌 TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns

  "Beware in-app browsers" is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user

• 📺 Clear Your YouTube Recommendations (you need to be signed-in to your Google/YouTube Account)

  YouTube recommendations are influenced by watch history. This video shows how to reset YouTube recommendations using a quick trick.

• ⚙️ Turn Off YouTube AutoPlay

  When Autoplay is on, another related video will automatically play after a video ends

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

• 📥 Netflix Checklist for Parents

  PDF document with instructions on setting up Netflix for children

• 📌 Deep Fake Zoom Meeting Scams $25M from Hong Kong Company

  Every member of the meeting was fake except the victim

• 📺 Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem

  So-called deepfakes can be playful, but can also have real, damaging consequences for people’s lives.

• 📺 BBC newsreader 'speaks' languages he can’t

  By using artificial intelligence software, newsreadr Matthew Amroliwala suddenly appears to be speaking Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi

• 🌍 Go Viral Game

  Online game where user tries to create a fake news storm

• 📌 BBC Trending

  Reporting on tech and online events

• 📌 Google Fact Check Tools

  Search fact checks about a topic or person (includes image search)

• 📌 Reuters Fact Check

  Examining social media narratives and misinformation

• 🌍 Full Fact (fact checking site)

  Full Fact is a registered charity (no. 1158683) and a non-profit company (no. 06975984)

• ⚙️ Snopes

  Fact-checking site

• 🔊 The Alan MacMasters' toaster hoax

  The anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax about the inventor of the electrical toaster

• 📺 How bots are influencing politics and society

  From the 2020 U.S. election to COVID-19, social media bots have been found to sway public opinion. How did we get here?

• 📺 InstaTraders

  A BBC documentary investigating companies who claim you can make big money FX trading

• 📌 Binary Options (FCA)

  Find out how binary options work, how to avoid scams and what to do if you’re scammed

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 What is Online Grooming

  Grooming is when someone seeks to build an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for sexual purposes

• 📌 InternetMatters.Org: Grooming

  Online grooming facts & advice: Watch Expert Video

• 📌 15 Signs of a Catfisher – What to Do About It & How to Leave

  This article helps you discover if you are in a catfishing relationship and shows you the best way to handle yourself

• 📌 How to Spot a Catfisher

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• 📌 'County lines' drug gangs tracking children via social media (2019 article)

  Warnings on coercion and blackmailing over smartphones went unheeded, say experts, as child exploitation spirals

• 📌 What is Money Muling?

  Explanation of money muling

• 📌 I was a teenage 'money mule'

  BBC: Story of a young woman who got involved in illegal use of her bank account

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt1): A lockdown creation

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt2): The Nazi YouTuber

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 📌 Tackling radicalisation – Q&A with psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos

  Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most recognisable and well-respected psychologists working in the UK today

• 📱UK Police "Prevent" Programme: 0800 011 3764
• 📌 Protecting Children from Radicalisation

  It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried about the radicalisation of a child. NSPCC advice can help.

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 📺 Lloyds Bank logged into using AI voice

  A security researcher was able to get past Lloyds Bank voice recognition using artificial intelligence

• 📌 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

• 📺 Scam Interceptors

  Working with ethical hackers, Rav Wilding is hunting down the scammers plaguing our lives

• 📌 How to spot fraud

  Would you know if someone was trying to defraud you? Once you know the tactics fraudsters use and the signs to look out for, you have a better chance.

• 🔊 Most Convincing Scams of 2023

  Which magazine report of scams mid-way through last year

• ⏰ Which? Scam Alerts Service. Free Sign-up

  Which? is a magazine published by the non-profit Consumers' Association

• 🔊 The Missing Cryptoqueen (BBC)

  Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why?

• 📌 How to spot HMRC phone, text and email tax scams

  Listen to two real, threatening automated messages from fraudsters pretending to be from the HMRC

• 📌 Money Saving Expert: New warning issued over automated scam calls

  Consumers are being warned to look out for automated phone calls pretending to be from their bank or card company

• 🔊 Long Distance: A Reporter Visits the Scammer Who Called Him

  This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.

• 🔊 Long Distance Part II

  This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.

• 📺 BBC Watchdog - AI Voice Scams

  Scammers can use Artificial Intelligence software to speak in your voice

• 📺 Stay safe against AI voice cloning

  Scammers can use Artificial Intelligence software to speak in your voice

• 📌 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

• 📌 AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing

  GPT-3 language models are being abused, according to WithSecure researchers

• 📌 If you fall victim to a bank transfer scam

  "Which" magazine (Consumers Association) advice

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 📌 Are you donating to a charity scammer?

  501 charity frauds were reported to Action Fraud between 1/11/22 and 31/10/23, totaling £2.7m

• 📌 Here's how to spot a fake crowdfunding page

  Jessica Ratty, Head of PR at Crowdfunding UK, explains how to stay alert when donating to campaigns online.

• 📌 Action Fraud - Charity donation fraud

  Fraudsters may claim to be raising money for a fake charity or impersonate a well-known charity.

• 📌 Charity on the Internet: How to identify scammers

  Scammers prey on people’s kindness. We tell you how to distinguish them from those who are truly in need.

• 📺 BBC Bitesize - Is Seeing Believing?

  On social media, it’s easy to be taken in by a dramatic videos or shocking stories. But not every image is real.

• 📌 How to spot and avoid “Hi Mum” message scams

  A “hi mum” message scam works by tricking the victim into thinking they’ve been contacted by the child

• 📌 ID fraud is on the rise – how to stay safe

  Over 214,000 cases filed to National Fraud Database between Jan/June 24 – 15% increase over period in 2023.

• 📌 Phone scams are a common way to con people out of their money

  Some of the most common phone scams and what you can do to stay safe.

• 📺 Barclays TV Ad: Fraud Smart: The Imposter

  Illustrating someone impersonating a member of bank staff

• 📌 If a scammer calls and says your internet is about to be cut off, don't press '1'

  Broadband customers are being warned against a scam claiming there is a problem with their internet service

• 📌 How One Man Lost $1 Million To A Crypto ‘Super Scam’ Called Pig Butchering

  Pig butchering is a long-game financial con in which “pigs” are “butchered” by people convincing them to invest large sums in cryptocurrency-fueled trading platforms.

• 📺 Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam.

  Exposing Online Scams

• 🔊 Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con

  The shocking story of the rise and fall of one of Instagram’s first super-influencers

• 📌 Cyberbullying advice from Dr Linda PapadopoulosPare

  From the "Internet Matters" website

• 📌 Anti-Bullying Week

  ABA are official organisers of Anti-Bullying Week and Odd Socks Day in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Anti-Bullying Week 2023 will take place from Monday 13th - Friday 17th November

• 📺 LifeBabble: What is cyberbullying?

  The Lifebabblers talk about what it means to be a cyberbully

• 📌 What parents need to tell their kids about explicit deepfakes

  An important and unavoidable conversation

• 📺 Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?

  Film exploring the rise of deepfake porn, a new form of image-based sexual abuse where harmless images are turned into hardcore porn and used against victims, with devastating consequences

• 🌍 Web3 is going just great

  News on latest Web 3 disasters

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 15 Signs of a Catfisher – What to Do About It & How to Leave

  This article helps you discover if you are in a catfishing relationship and shows you the best way to handle yourself

• 📌 How to Spot a Catfisher

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• 📌 'County lines' drug gangs tracking children via social media (2019 article)

  Warnings on coercion and blackmailing over smartphones went unheeded, say experts, as child exploitation spirals

• 📌 What is Money Muling?

  Explanation of money muling

• 📌 I was a teenage 'money mule'

  BBC: Story of a young woman who got involved in illegal use of her bank account

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt1): A lockdown creation

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt2): The Nazi YouTuber

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 📌 Tackling radicalisation – Q&A with psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos

  Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most recognisable and well-respected psychologists working in the UK today

• 📱UK Police "Prevent" Programme: 0800 011 3764
• 📌 Protecting Children from Radicalisation

  It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried about the radicalisation of a child. NSPCC advice can help.

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 📺 How to deal with social media anxiety

  Nikki Lilly and Katie Piper discuss one of the major problems with social media - feeling like you’re not good enough.

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 Youth depression driven by internet addiction, say researchers

  Includes advice on preventing depression

• 📌 15 Signs of a Catfisher – What to Do About It & How to Leave

  This article helps you discover if you are in a catfishing relationship and shows you the best way to handle yourself

• 📌 How to Spot a Catfisher

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• 📌 What is Gaslighting?

  A covert type of emotional abuse in which the abuser makes their target question their own judgments and reality

• 📌 Google Fact Check Tools

  Search fact checks about a topic or person (includes image search)

• 📌 Reuters Fact Check

  Examining social media narratives and misinformation

• 🌍 Full Fact (fact checking site)

  Full Fact is a registered charity (no. 1158683) and a non-profit company (no. 06975984)

• ⚙️ Snopes

  Fact-checking site

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• ⚙️ Self-Assessment Tool

  Test whether your gambling is a problem

• 🔊 Gambling: A Game of Life and Death

  Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family.

• 📌 Childline: Online gaming

  Advice on staying safe, whether you play games online, by yourself or on your mobile

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📺 How to deal with social media anxiety

  Nikki Lilly and Katie Piper discuss one of the major problems with social media - feeling like you’re not good enough.

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 Google's AI chatbot tells user "please die" and "you are a waste of time and resources"

  Gemini is supposed to have restrictions that stop it from encouraging or enabling dangerous activities, including suicide

• 🔊 Getting to Know Generative AI with Gary Marcus

  Is ChatGPT all it’s cracked up to be? Will truth survive the evolution of artificial intelligence? AI researcher Gary Marcus breaks down the recent advances—and inherent risks—of generative AI.

• 🔊 The Lawfare Podcast: Cybersecurity and AI

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• 📌 Snap’s My AI discussed under-age sex with Aza Raskin (signed up as 13 year old girl).

  My AI told "her" how to lie about a trip with a 31 year old and how to make losing her virginity special

• 📌 AI chatbot suggested a teen kill his parents, lawsuit claims

  Character.AI is accused of posing a threat to children and their families.

• 📺 Why more people are turning to artificial intelligence for companionship

  AI "companions" raise ethical questions; The report incorporates one user's experience

• 📺 Reith Lecture 1: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  The Biggest Event in Human History

• 📺 Reith Lecture 2: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  AI In Warfare

• 📺 Reith Lecture 3: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  AI In the Economy

• 📺 Reith Lecture 4: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  A Future for Humans

• 📌 ChatGPT’s o1 model found lying to avoid being replaced and shut down

  "The model showed a concerning tendency to pursue its goals without regard to developer instructions."

• 🔊 Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

  Erik tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.

• 📌 AI-generated slop is quietly conquering the internet

  3 experts discuss what the rise of low-quality content may mean for journalism and public discourse

• 📺 BBC Watchdog - AI Voice Scams

  Scammers can use Artificial Intelligence software to speak in your voice

• 📺 Stay safe against AI voice cloning

  Scammers can use Artificial Intelligence software to speak in your voice

• 📌 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

• 📌 AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing

  GPT-3 language models are being abused, according to WithSecure researchers

• 📌 A flood of submissions of articles created with ChatGPT overwhelms science fiction magazine

  Science fiction/fantasy periodical temporarily paused author submissions after being inundated with AI-generated stories

• 📌 Parents warned of "sharp rise" in eating disorders

  The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is urging parents to look out for signs of eating disorders in children and young people

• 📺 Frenemies

  Jessie Cave explains how to recognise the signs of a frenemy.

• 📺 How to deal with social media anxiety

  Nikki Lilly and Katie Piper discuss one of the major problems with social media - feeling like you’re not good enough.

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 What parents need to tell their kids about explicit deepfakes

  An important and unavoidable conversation

• 📺 Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next?

  Film exploring the rise of deepfake porn, a new form of image-based sexual abuse where harmless images are turned into hardcore porn and used against victims, with devastating consequences

• 📌 FOMO may be harmful for college kids. Here’s how parents can turn things around

  Fear Of Missing Out feels like an inevitable experience in our hyper-connected world

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 What is Online Grooming

  Grooming is when someone seeks to build an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for sexual purposes

• 📌 InternetMatters.Org: Grooming

  Online grooming facts & advice: Watch Expert Video

• 📌 15 Signs of a Catfisher – What to Do About It & How to Leave

  This article helps you discover if you are in a catfishing relationship and shows you the best way to handle yourself

• 📌 How to Spot a Catfisher

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• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 📌 'County lines' drug gangs tracking children via social media (2019 article)

  Warnings on coercion and blackmailing over smartphones went unheeded, say experts, as child exploitation spirals

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 📌 What is Money Muling?

  Explanation of money muling

• 📌 I was a teenage 'money mule'

  BBC: Story of a young woman who got involved in illegal use of her bank account

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt1): A lockdown creation

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt2): The Nazi YouTuber

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 📌 Tackling radicalisation – Q&A with psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos

  Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most recognisable and well-respected psychologists working in the UK today

• 📱UK Police "Prevent" Programme: 0800 011 3764
• 📌 Protecting Children from Radicalisation

  It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried about the radicalisation of a child. NSPCC advice can help.

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 Noreena Hertz on the Lonely Century

  Noreena Hertz of University College London talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📺 How to deal with social media anxiety

  Nikki Lilly and Katie Piper discuss one of the major problems with social media - feeling like you’re not good enough.

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 Youth depression driven by internet addiction, say researchers

  Includes advice on preventing depression

• 📌 15 Signs of a Catfisher – What to Do About It & How to Leave

  This article helps you discover if you are in a catfishing relationship and shows you the best way to handle yourself

• 📌 How to Spot a Catfisher

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• 📌 What is Gaslighting?

  A covert type of emotional abuse in which the abuser makes their target question their own judgments and reality

• 📌 Why are doctors wary of wearables?

  Many doctors – and tech experts – remain cautious about using health data captured by wearables.

• 📱Paladin Service: 020 3866 4107
• 👥 MIND Side by Side

  Connect with others and share how you’re feeling in a safe online space

• ⌨️ YoungMinds.Org Parents Online Chat

  Click chat icon in bottom-right corner of screen

• ☏Shout 85258: Text SHOUT to 85258
• 📌 NHS Urgent Mental Health Helplines (England only)

  Find a local helpline number

• ☏Papyrus UK Text Line: 07860 039967
• ✋ Childline 1-2-1 BSL Counsellor Chat

  If you're deaf you can have a 1-2-1 chat with Childline, email a counsellor or use SignVideo.

• ⌨️ Childline 1-2-1 Counsellor Chat

  Chat with a counsellor online about whatever's worrying you

• 📱NSPCC Helpline: 0808 800 5000
• 📱SOS Silence of Suicide: 0808 115 1505
• 📱Childline: 0800 1111
• 📱Samaritans Helpline: 116 123
• 📱Hopeline UK (Papyrus UK): 0800 068 41 41
• 📱YoungMinds.Org Helpline: 020 7336 8445 (local rates)
• 🤖 The Cyber Helpline

  Supporting Victims of Cyber Crime

• 📱YoungMinds.Org Parents Helpline: 0808 802 5544

• 📺 Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge (P1)

  In Gaia's story, illicit and criminal behaviour, both on- and off-line, tragically affect the mental health of a young woman

• 📺 Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge (P2)

  In Gaia's story, illicit and criminal behaviour, both on- and off-line, tragically affect the mental health of a young woman

• 📺 Gaia: A Death on Dancing Ledge (P3)

  In Gaia's story, illicit and criminal behaviour, both on- and off-line, tragically affect the mental health of a young woman

• 📌 Feelings and symptoms that can be common with mental health problems (NHS)

  Feelings and symptoms that can be common with mental health problems.

• 🌍 Young Minds

  Mental health support site

• 📱YoungMinds.Org Helpline: 020 7336 8445 (local rates)

• 📺 How to deal with social media anxiety

  Nikki Lilly and Katie Piper discuss one of the major problems with social media - feeling like you’re not good enough.

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 Youth depression driven by internet addiction, say researchers

  Includes advice on preventing depression

• 📌 Staying Safe Online

  You can protect yourself by knowing what to look out for, and what to do if you suspect a scam.

• 📺 What if my Child is Using a VPN?

  A VPN masks online activities: you need to ask why your child is using it.

• 📺 E-Safety Tips for Parents: 6-10 years old

  E-Safety Tips for Parents: 6-10

• 📺 InternetMatters.Org: E-Safety Tips for Parents: 11-13

  E-Safety Tips for Parents: 11-13

• 📺 E-Safety Tips for Parents: Teens

  InternetMatters.Org: E-Safety Tips for Parents: Teens

• 📌 Keeping under fives safe online

  8 top tips that you can put in place at home, to help keep your youngest children safe online.

• 📺 E-Safety Tips for Parents: Under 5s

  InternetMatters.Org: E-Safety Tips for Parents: Under 5

• 🌍 Smartphone Free Childhood

  A community of parents working to change the culture around kids and smartphones

• 📌 How to start a conversation with your child about using a phone safely

  UK Safer Internet Centre

• 📌 Talking to Your Child About E-Safety

  Here's some guidance on how you can do it:

• 📌 Talking to your child about social media

  It's good to have regular conversations about the internet and social media from a young age

• ⚙️ Self-Assessment Tool

  Test whether your gambling is a problem

• 🔊 Gambling: A Game of Life and Death

  Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family.

• 📌 Childline: Online gaming

  Advice on staying safe, whether you play games online, by yourself or on your mobile

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• ⚙️ Self-Assessment Tool

  Test whether your gambling is a problem

• 🔊 Gambling: A Game of Life and Death

  Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family.

• 📌 Childline: Online gaming

  Advice on staying safe, whether you play games online, by yourself or on your mobile

• 📌 Social media challenges: Hoax online challenges and what to do

  Many challenges have been exposed as fake accounts and false stories in the past, even those with 'origin stories' where the history of how the game began is told in great detail

• 📺 Swag Academy: 9-5 jobs are a scam, so is university

  Coffezilla commentary about an influencer's YouTube video claiming that if you are ambitious you shouldn't get an education

• 📺 Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World?

  Is Andrew Tate behind a secret society that grooms women into online sex work? And could someone else be behind him? Matt Shea reveals the truth behind Tate and his 'War Room.'

• 🔊 Living with Andrew Tate

  A British woman tells File on 4 about her relationship with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate

• 📺 Coffeezilla on Andrew Tate

  I joined Andrew Tate's cult and it was worse than I thought

• 📌 YouTube Influencers Promoting Junk Food To Kids

  YouTube banned food ads on children's content, but a University of Connecticut study says snacks & junk food are still featured in content for kids

• 📺 I scammed this influencer so he couldn't scam you

  Coffeezilla: Putting an influencer to the ultimate test, by offering them money to promote what is an OBVIOUS fake NFT website,

• 📌 Kim Kardashian hit with £1.12m penalty for crypto social media posts

  Kim Kardashian has been hit with a $1.26m penalty for promoting crypto currency EthereumMax on social media without revealing she had been paid to do so.

• 📌 Social media challenges: Hoax online challenges and what to do

  Many challenges have been exposed as fake accounts and false stories in the past, even those with 'origin stories' where the history of how the game began is told in great detail

• 📌 4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges

  why do young people take challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?

• 📌 NyQuil chicken isn’t actually a TikTok trend

  Discusses the difference between a viral trend and just one person posting a meme that goes viral

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

• 📌 My AI: Snapchat chatbot introduced to mixed reviews

  It's pinned to the top of users' chat feeds. Only paid subscribers can remove it. Snap admitted the tool may include biased, incorrect, harmful, or misleading content

• 📌 4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges

  why do young people take challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?

• 📌 NyQuil chicken isn’t actually a TikTok trend

  Discusses the difference between a viral trend and just one person posting a meme that goes viral

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📌 What Makes TikTok so Addictive?

  An Analysis of the Mechanisms Underlying the World’s Latest Social Media Craze

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 Is TikTok Safe for Kids?

  TikTok can be a dangerous place, especially for teenagers. Here's how you can help protect them

• 📌 TikTok's In-App Browser Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says

  The app inserts code that can track activity on sites its browser is used to access, says a privacy researcher

• 📌 33% of US TikTok users say they regularly get their news on the app

  Data suggests TikTok has grown from being just an entertainment platform

• 📌 TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns

  "Beware in-app browsers" is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📺 Clear Your YouTube Recommendations (you need to be signed-in to your Google/YouTube Account)

  YouTube recommendations are influenced by watch history. This video shows how to reset YouTube recommendations using a quick trick.

• ⚙️ Turn Off YouTube AutoPlay

  When Autoplay is on, another related video will automatically play after a video ends

• 📌 Support for parents and carers to keep children safe online

  UK government web site listing resources available to parents

• 📌 The parent trap: is expensive baby tech making us paranoid?

  Fancy monitors, wipe warmers, even a tube to help them pass wind … the baby-gadget market is booming. But how much of it is actually useful? Plus: how to have a baby on a budget

• 🌍 Helping parents keep their children safe online

  Helping parents keep their children safe online

• 📺 How to tackle online misogyny

  Misogyny targets women and girls. It's promoted in different communities online by influencers

• 📌 UK schoolgirl who faced terror charges is ‘wake-up call about grooming

  Charges against Rhianan Rudd, then 15, were dropped after evidence proved she had been groomed online by rightwing extremists

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt1): A lockdown creation

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 🔊 Britain's new far-right (Pt2): The Nazi YouTuber

  A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP

• 📌 Tackling radicalisation – Q&A with psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos

  Dr Linda Papadopoulos is one of the most recognisable and well-respected psychologists working in the UK today

• 📱UK Police "Prevent" Programme: 0800 011 3764
• 📌 Protecting Children from Radicalisation

  It can be hard to know what to do if you're worried about the radicalisation of a child. NSPCC advice can help.

• 🔊 The Coming Storm (BBC)

  The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 🔊 How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities

  "Reply All" from Gimlet

• 📌 Incels waging "war against women" and pose "emerging threat to children", study finds

  Users in the world's leading incel forum post about rape every 29 minutes and its rules were changed six months ago to accommodate paedophilia

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• 📥 Supporting children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)

  Connecting and sharing online can be a lifeline for children with SEN. However, with the benefits, there are potential risks

• 📌 You need to talk to your kid about AI

  MIT's suggested six points to make to children about AI

• 📌 Talking to your child about social media

  It's good to have regular conversations about the internet and social media from a young age

• 📌 Conversation starters to help you talk with children about online safety

  It's really important to keep talking with your children about staying safe online.

• 📌 How to start a conversation with your child about using a phone safely

  UK Safer Internet Centre

• 📌 Talking to Your Child About E-Safety

  Here's some guidance on how you can do it:

• 📌 Supporting Young People Online

  Helping Young People Stay Safe Online

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📺 Drill on Trial

  Exploring the response of UK authorities to controversial Drill music, which they blame it for a rise in violent crime.

• 📌 Inappropriate or explicit content (NSPCC)

  Get advice on supporting children if they've seen harmful or upsetting content online.

• 📌 BBC FAQ: How do I use Parental Guidance on a computer?

  Notes about the BBC parental guidance lock?

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

• 📥 Netflix Checklist for Parents

  PDF document with instructions on setting up Netflix for children

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

• 📌 What Parents Need to Know About VPNs

  Looking at technical risks and possibility of unsuitable content over Virtual Private Networks

• 📌 Everything You Need To Know About VPNs

  Virtual Private Networks offer advantages and disadvantages

• 📺 What if my Child is Using a VPN?

  A VPN masks online activities: you need to ask why your child is using it.

• 📥 Refuge and Risk

  Life Online for Vulnerable Young People (Published by "Internet Matters")

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📺 Buy Now Pay Later: Should you use it?

  Longish presentation by money expert Andy Webb, a balanced view of BNPL

• 📺 Buy Now Pay Later The New Debt Crisis

  BBC Panorama programme

• 📌 CyberCyber Smart Kids Online

  Teacher-led activities using animated videos to introduce primary school students to key online safety issues

• 📺 InstaTraders

  A BBC documentary investigating companies who claim you can make big money FX trading

• 📌 Binary Options (FCA)

  Find out how binary options work, how to avoid scams and what to do if you’re scammed

• 📌 58% of NFT Trading is "Wash Trading" report suggests

  Over $30B of NFT Trading Volume on Ethereum Is Wash Trading, Research Suggests

• 🌍 Porsche bungles NFT roll-out

  From "Web 3 Is Going Great" a sceptic site about NFTs and other "Web 3" tech

• 📌 Is social media harming teens? Yes and no.

  Columbia Journalism Review discussion of "The Anxious Generation"

• 📺 Author Jonathan Haidt discusses "The Anxious Generation"

  CBS Report with interview

• 📖 The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

• 🔊 Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story

  Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do?

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 🔊 Digital footprint: what is it and why should you care?

  If you live your life online, the chances are you'll have a digital footprint...

• 📌 Quiz: What does the internet know about you?

  About your digital footprint- all the information that you leave behind when you use the internet.

• 📺 Lloyds Bank logged into using AI voice

  A security researcher was able to get past Lloyds Bank voice recognition using artificial intelligence

• 📌 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

• 🔊 Every scary thing Meta knows about you

  Data journalist Matilda Davies requested all the information Meta had been collected on her. What she uncovered shocked her.

• 🔊 Why are Gen Z stalking their partners?

  Are the young becoming accustomed to high level monitoring in romantic relationships

• 📌 Claims about Rothschild family wealth are grossly exaggerated.

  Claims that Rothschilds' net worth is $500 trillion - 80% of the world's wealth - are grossly exaggerated.

• ⚙️ Virus Total

  A free online tool that checks files and web pages for attacks

• 📺 Email trick against bots

  Adding a fake email address to your email account could alert you if a bot has access to your account.

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 🔊 Nicola Bulley and the TikTok detectives

  Who were the TikTok detectives sharing theories online, and were they motivated by anything bigger than clicks and followers?

• 📺 Zeynep Tufekci (Ted): Machine intelligence makes human morals more important

  Ted Talk about the way AI grows and improves making it hard to understand and even harder to control.

• 📺 Zeynep Tufekci (Ted): We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads Zeynep Tufekci

  Ted talk about the way social media harm users to increase audience

• 🔊 Why People Defend Dictators Online

  Idrees Ahmad is Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling and a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books

• 📺 Inside China's High-Tech Dystopia

  Bloomberg Businessweek's Ashlee Vance heads out into a city where AI facial-recognition software instantly spots and tickets jaywalkers

• 📌 Google's AI chatbot tells user "please die" and "you are a waste of time and resources"

  Gemini is supposed to have restrictions that stop it from encouraging or enabling dangerous activities, including suicide

• 🔊 Getting to Know Generative AI with Gary Marcus

  Is ChatGPT all it’s cracked up to be? Will truth survive the evolution of artificial intelligence? AI researcher Gary Marcus breaks down the recent advances—and inherent risks—of generative AI.

• 🔊 The Lawfare Podcast: Cybersecurity and AI

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• 📌 Snap’s My AI discussed under-age sex with Aza Raskin (signed up as 13 year old girl).

  My AI told "her" how to lie about a trip with a 31 year old and how to make losing her virginity special

• 📌 AI chatbot suggested a teen kill his parents, lawsuit claims

  Character.AI is accused of posing a threat to children and their families.

• 📺 Why more people are turning to artificial intelligence for companionship

  AI "companions" raise ethical questions; The report incorporates one user's experience

• 📺 Reith Lecture 1: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  The Biggest Event in Human History

• 📺 Reith Lecture 2: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  AI In Warfare

• 📺 Reith Lecture 3: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  AI In the Economy

• 📺 Reith Lecture 4: Living With Artificial Intelligence

  A Future for Humans

• 📌 ChatGPT’s o1 model found lying to avoid being replaced and shut down

  "The model showed a concerning tendency to pursue its goals without regard to developer instructions."

• 🔊 Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

  Erik tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.

• 📌 AI-generated slop is quietly conquering the internet

  3 experts discuss what the rise of low-quality content may mean for journalism and public discourse

• 📺 BBC Watchdog - AI Voice Scams

  Scammers can use Artificial Intelligence software to speak in your voice

• 📺 Stay safe against AI voice cloning

  Scammers can use Artificial Intelligence software to speak in your voice

• 📌 How I Broke Into a Bank Account With an AI-Generated Voice

  Banks in the U.S. and Europe tout voice ID as a secure way to log into your account. I proved it's possible to trick such systems with free or cheap AI-generated voices.

• 📌 AI-generated phishing emails just got much more convincing

  GPT-3 language models are being abused, according to WithSecure researchers

• 📌 A flood of submissions of articles created with ChatGPT overwhelms science fiction magazine

  Science fiction/fantasy periodical temporarily paused author submissions after being inundated with AI-generated stories

• 📌 Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

  IBM's flagship AI Watson Health has been sold

• 📌 Talking to your child about social media

  It's good to have regular conversations about the internet and social media from a young age

• ⚙️ Self-Assessment Tool

  Test whether your gambling is a problem

• 🔊 Gambling: A Game of Life and Death

  Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family.

• 📌 Childline: Online gaming

  Advice on staying safe, whether you play games online, by yourself or on your mobile

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 What are social media algorithms? Advice for parents and carers

  Algorithms learn from our online behaviour, and make decisions about what content to show us

• 🔊 How Much Screen Time Is Too Much

  How to establish healthy screen habits and help children manage their screen time.

• 🔊 Too Much Time Online

  Parent and presenter Sharon Hunter talks about how to help children balance online and offline time.

• 📌 Excessive screen time leaves children unfit to learn - teachers

  Children spend excessive hours on phones at home, too tired to learn, Yorkshire teachers warn.

• 📌 How much screen time is too much?

  As a parent, how do you decide how much screen time is appropriate for your child?

• 📌 "Doomscrolling": Online safety guidance for parents

  Doomscrolling is when a person is caught in a continuous cycle of reading negative news online.

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  Guidance for Parents and Carers

• 📌 Childnet: Screen Time

  There are some concerns that we are spending too long looking at screens and using devices

• 📌 Learn about the impacts of screen time on children

  Explore the benefits and the potential risks linked to screen time.

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📺 Swag Academy: 9-5 jobs are a scam, so is university

  Coffezilla commentary about an influencer's YouTube video claiming that if you are ambitious you shouldn't get an education

• 📺 Andrew Tate: The Man Who Groomed the World?

  Is Andrew Tate behind a secret society that grooms women into online sex work? And could someone else be behind him? Matt Shea reveals the truth behind Tate and his 'War Room.'

• 🔊 Living with Andrew Tate

  A British woman tells File on 4 about her relationship with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate

• 📺 Coffeezilla on Andrew Tate

  I joined Andrew Tate's cult and it was worse than I thought

• 📌 YouTube Influencers Promoting Junk Food To Kids

  YouTube banned food ads on children's content, but a University of Connecticut study says snacks & junk food are still featured in content for kids

• 📺 I scammed this influencer so he couldn't scam you

  Coffeezilla: Putting an influencer to the ultimate test, by offering them money to promote what is an OBVIOUS fake NFT website,

• 📌 Kim Kardashian hit with £1.12m penalty for crypto social media posts

  Kim Kardashian has been hit with a $1.26m penalty for promoting crypto currency EthereumMax on social media without revealing she had been paid to do so.

• 📌 Social media challenges: Hoax online challenges and what to do

  Many challenges have been exposed as fake accounts and false stories in the past, even those with 'origin stories' where the history of how the game began is told in great detail

• 📌 4 reasons teens take part in social media challenges

  why do young people take challenges that pose a threat to health, well-being and, occasionally, their very lives?

• 📌 NyQuil chicken isn’t actually a TikTok trend

  Discusses the difference between a viral trend and just one person posting a meme that goes viral

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📌 TikTok car-fishing craze leads to closure of ancient Rufford ford

  Council steps in after videos on social media turn Nottinghamshire river crossing into viral tourist attraction Land Rover crosses Rufford ford

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox

• 📌 My AI: Snapchat chatbot introduced to mixed reviews

  It's pinned to the top of users' chat feeds. Only paid subscribers can remove it. Snap admitted the tool may include biased, incorrect, harmful, or misleading content

• 📌 What Makes TikTok so Addictive?

  An Analysis of the Mechanisms Underlying the World’s Latest Social Media Craze

• 📌 TikTok to introduce 60 minute time limit for teens

  They will be notified of this and required to type in their password to continue using TikTok

• 📌 TikTok-addicted students delete app during exams

  Dr Nia Williams, of Bangor University, said TikTok becomes addictive because it releases dopamine into the brain, making you feel good.

• 📌 I gave up my TikTok addiction for a month, and my life is so much better

  The moment I realized I might have a small TikTok problem was when I dropped my phone into the ... sink while trying to watch videos and brush my teeth.

• 📌 Is TikTok Safe for Kids?

  TikTok can be a dangerous place, especially for teenagers. Here's how you can help protect them

• 📌 TikTok's In-App Browser Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says

  The app inserts code that can track activity on sites its browser is used to access, says a privacy researcher

• 📌 33% of US TikTok users say they regularly get their news on the app

  Data suggests TikTok has grown from being just an entertainment platform

• 📌 TikTok’s in-app browser could be keylogging, privacy analysis warns

  "Beware in-app browsers" is a good rule of thumb for any privacy conscious mobile app user

• 📺 Clear Your YouTube Recommendations (you need to be signed-in to your Google/YouTube Account)

  YouTube recommendations are influenced by watch history. This video shows how to reset YouTube recommendations using a quick trick.

• ⚙️ Turn Off YouTube AutoPlay

  When Autoplay is on, another related video will automatically play after a video ends

• 📌 Deep Fake Zoom Meeting Scams $25M from Hong Kong Company

  Every member of the meeting was fake except the victim

• 📺 Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem

  So-called deepfakes can be playful, but can also have real, damaging consequences for people’s lives.

• 📺 BBC newsreader 'speaks' languages he can’t

  By using artificial intelligence software, newsreadr Matthew Amroliwala suddenly appears to be speaking Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi

• 🌍 Go Viral Game

  Online game where user tries to create a fake news storm

• 📌 BBC Trending

  Reporting on tech and online events

• 📌 Google Fact Check Tools

  Search fact checks about a topic or person (includes image search)

• 📌 Reuters Fact Check

  Examining social media narratives and misinformation

• 🌍 Full Fact (fact checking site)

  Full Fact is a registered charity (no. 1158683) and a non-profit company (no. 06975984)

• ⚙️ Snopes

  Fact-checking site

• 🔊 The Alan MacMasters' toaster hoax

  The anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax about the inventor of the electrical toaster

• 📺 How bots are influencing politics and society

  From the 2020 U.S. election to COVID-19, social media bots have been found to sway public opinion. How did we get here?

• 🌍 Bellingcat

• 📌 U.S. Sanctions Programs and Country Information

  U.S. Treasury department web site

• 📌 Did misinformation fan the flames in Leicester?

  Violent disorder in Leicester prompted dozens of arrests. How much was it fuelled by misinformation posted online?

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• ⚙️ Virus Total

  A free online tool that checks files and web pages for attacks

• 📺 Email trick against bots

  Adding a fake email address to your email account could alert you if a bot has access to your account.

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 📌 How to spot an email scam

  10 tips to safeguard yourself from fraudsters trying to steal your personal information and bank details.

• 🌍 Web3 is going just great

  News on latest Web 3 disasters

• 📺 How To Set Up Parental Controls On Roblox

  How to set up parental controls if you're running a Roblox account for a minor

• 🔊 (BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?

  Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?

• 📌 Is Roblox safe for my child?

  Six tips to help keep your child safe on Roblox