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Molly Russell’s father to tell UK cinemagoers: ‘Instagram helped kill my daughter’

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In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14The father of Molly Russell will tell UK cinemagoers “Instagram helped kill my daughter” before screenings of a new film about Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire.Speaking in an advert to be shown before The

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Pornhub returns to Australia after banning access due to age verification rules

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Australian adults again able to access the world’s most popular porn site after parent company introduces age checking via Apple devicesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian adults will be able to access Pornhub once again after the site brought in age-checking on Apple devices in response to legal requirements that

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Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants safety checks

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Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety ActMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is under investigation for a potential breach of the UK’s digital safety laws after launching a Snapchat-style feature on Instagram.The UK’s communications watchdog, Ofcom, is investigating whether the $1.9tn (£1.4tn) company infringed the Online Safety Act (OSA) by

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The Guardian view on sexual abuse in schools: teachers cannot deal with this alone | Editorial

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Politicians must redouble their efforts to tackle a disturbing pattern of pupils assaulting classmatesThe Guardian’s findings about the extent of sexual abuse in schools require an urgent, calibrated response. Data revealing multiple rapes committed each year on school premises in England and Wales is hard to comprehend. Yet this is what freedom of information requests

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Internet Watch Foundation reports huge rise in AI child sexual abuse material

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Abuse material monitor says number of AI images assessed this year is already 40% higher than last year’s totalAI-generated child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, with the amount of illegal material investigated this year already exceeding the total for 2025.Analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation have found more photorealistic child sexual abuse material in

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Nandy says children’s social media ban only ‘staging post’ in online safety drive

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Exclusive: Culture secretary says UK will crack down further and be ‘pioneer of tech as a force for good’Lisa Nandy has warned technology firms that the government’s online safety crackdown is not finished, saying that banning under-16s from social media platforms is only a “staging post”.Earlier this year the government announced that teenagers under the

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‘Mum, where did my Robux go?’ The Roblox scam targeting children

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Criminals are trying to glean login details to harvest players’ in-game currency and personal dataYour 10-year-old son has started playing Roblox, when he realises all of his in-game currency, Robux, is gone.When you try to find out what happened, he says he was recently promised extra Robux if he followed a link on YouTube. When

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TikTok drops appeal against £12.7m fine for not keeping under-13s off platform

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UK watchdog fined video app in 2023 for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage usersTikTok will pay a £12.7m fine to the UK’s data watchdog after dropping an appeal against a ruling that it did not do enough to keep children below the age of 13 off the platform.The video app was

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US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests

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Disturbing and AI-generated versions of Dr Seuss character have been used to threaten schools and communitiesSchools and law enforcement authorities in the US are issuing warnings against a viral “Cat in the Hat” social media trend in which disturbing or AI-generated versions of the Dr Seuss character are used to threaten students, schools and communities.The

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UK to force Apple and Google to block explicit images on children’s smartphones

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Lisa Nandy says government will introduce legislation after talks end without breakthroughApple and Google will be forced to block explicit images on children’s smartphones by law in the UK after talks failed to produce a breakthrough, the government has said.The legislation commitment puts ministers on a collision course with two of the biggest players in

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