Millions of older people are suffering from loneliness and are cut off from the digital world, a charity has warned. The Mental Health Foundation, which surveyed more than 6,000 adults
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A campaigner who was sexually abused as a child after being groomed online has urged Facebook to abandon plans she says will weaken protections for vulnerable people and give predators
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Partially sighted people taking Covid-19 lateral flow tests will be able to get help from a new app and video-call service. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) launched the service
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Launched by the Scottish Recovery Network, the Peer Chat podcast shares insights and inspiration from people using their lived experience of mental health challenges to both develop peer support approaches
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Tech giants have come under fresh fire after an investigation exposed hundreds of thousands of hate profiles online. Research by the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) uncovered
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There has been a six-fold rise in UK web traffic to websites promoting “incel” culture, new analysis has found. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate found that UK web traffic
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TikTok has unveiled a series of updates to its safety measures designed to better protect young people on the platform following a major report into how users interact with potentially
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A charity for missing people has launched an online chat service for vulnerable adults in response to rising demand and cases of increased severity during the coronavirus pandemic. Phone calls
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YouTube is to remove videos that contain misinformation about all vaccines, expanding its policies around health misinformation which had been strengthened during the coronavirus pandemic. The Google-owned video platform said
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The number of online grooming crimes recorded by police has risen sharply in the last three years, the NSPCC warned as it urged the Government to strengthen its plans for
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