Schools/Young People |
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?
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(BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?: Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed?
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Online Risks |
Sexting: When someone sends a sexual message, picture, or video
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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.
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What is Online Grooming: Grooming is when someone seeks to build an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for sexual purposes
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Criminal/Anti-Social |
Most Convincing Scams of 2023: Which magazine report of scams mid-way through last year
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Unwanted Contact: When someone keeps speaking to someone who doesn't want to speak to them
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Living with Andrew Tate: A British woman tells File on 4 about her relationship with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate
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The Missing Cryptoqueen (BBC): Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why?
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Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con: The shocking story of the rise and fall of one of Instagram’s first super-influencers
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Long Distance: A Reporter Visits the Scammer Who Called Him: This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.
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Long Distance Part II: This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman.
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Privacy |
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.
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Trends |
Why are Gen Z stalking their partners?: Are the young becoming accustomed to high level monitoring in romantic relationships
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How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities: "Reply All" from Gimlet
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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?
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Noreena Hertz on the Lonely Century: Noreena Hertz of University College London talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fakes |
The Alan MacMasters' toaster hoax: The anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax about the inventor of the electrical toaster
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[Unclassified] |
BBC 6 Minute English: Social Media and Teenage Health: What are the risks of social media to teenage health and what can be done about them?
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The Ethics of AI: Professor Michael Sandel on "The Public Philosopher", Radio 4
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