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Australia will ban children from using social media with a minimum age limit as high as 16, the prime minister said Tuesday, vowing to get kids off their devices and "onto the footy fields". Federal legislation to keep children off social media will be introduced this year, Anthony Albanese said... 
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Media influences and conventional beauty standards have long plagued society. This issue took on new urgency in May 2023 when the U.S. surgeon general issued a major public advisory over the links between social media and youth mental health. Research shows that images of beauty as depicted in movies, television and magazines can lead to mental illness, issues with disordered eating and body image dissatisfaction. These trends have been documented in women and men, in the LGBTQ+ community and in people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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A Missouri man was sentenced today to life in prison for running four websites dedicated to sharing images and videos of child sexual abuse.
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X executives Kathleen Reen and Nick Pickles' conflicting statements on child abuse content during an Australian hearing sparked outrage, exposing contradictions within X's policies.
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Reducing social media usage by as little as 15 minutes per day can increase health and well-being, claims a new study published in the Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science.
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There has been a tenfold increase in sexual abuse imagery created with webcams and other recording devices worldwide since 2019, according to the the Internet Watch Foundation. Social media sites and chatrooms are the most common methods used to facilitate contact with kids...
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SAN MATEO, California – California educators are suing Snap, TikTok and YouTube over allegations they intentionally designed their platforms to be addictive and to deliver harmful content to children.
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Twitter on Saturday blocked searches for a series of hashtags and keywords used to promote the sale of child sex abuse material following an NBC News review.
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Also recommends age verification as Meta tells The Reg it's working on parental controls...
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Lawmakers worldwide have been slow to react to the growing trend of children working in social media, leaving it up to parents to protect their kids.
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Several mothers on TikTok are removing content involving their children after viral mother-daughter duo face concerns of child exploitation.
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Canada could soon see stricter rules to tackle disinformation, hate speech and other harmful content on social media and online platforms.
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A Sydney man allegedly trading child abuse material online using a social media platform has been charged following an FBI tip-off.Australian Federal Police...
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Florida moved Thursday towards enacting what would be one of the strictest bans on children's use of social media in the United States after the state Senate passed a bill to keep those under 16 off such platforms.
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A former employee of Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, testified before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday and said the company did not do enough to limit the harmful effects of social media on teens.
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PORTLAND, Ore.—A Clackamas County, Oregon man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison today for using social media to stalk three Canadian children online and coerce them into producing and sharing sexually explicit photos and videos of themselves.
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INDIANAPOLIS- Matthew Hostetler, 26, of Greensburg, Indiana, has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor.
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INDIANAPOLIS- Benjamin Covey, 43, of Eaton, Indiana was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for distribution of child sexual abuse material.
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The meeting at Peters Township High School focused on phone and social media usage.
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – On January 20, 2023, United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado sentenced Ryan Yared Ortiz-Pérez to 21 years and 10 months in prison followed by six years of supervised release for production of child pornography and for soliciting and receiving the child exploitation material via the internet and social media applications.
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Kara Alaimo writes that while it's encouraging in some ways that a recent Pew report shows that a number of teens say social media has been a positive force in their lives, it's not time to breathe a sigh of relief.
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Sextortion is a form of cyberviolence in which ‘offenders demand that victims provide them with sexual images, sexual favours, or other things of value and threaten to harm or embarrass victims if they fail to comply’.
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A 3-year-old girl unknowingly sparked a mass social media movement of moms removing public photos and videos of their children online after online sleuths...
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Rep. Jared Peterson took to Twitter this week to endorse banning minors from social networks.
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Suspect arrested after footage sparks outrage across Egypt’s social media
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