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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Almost half of adults are not aware of the new GP data sharing scheme, a poll suggests. Consumer body Which? said that there needs to be better communication around the
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A collection of mock toys which mimic online abuse have been unveiled by a children’s rights group to highlight how certain behaviours permitted online would never be tolerated in the
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Software group Kainos saw its profit more than double in the last year, boosted in no small part by its hospitals business. The Belfast-based company said it had seen good
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Most people who turned to digital mental health services during the pandemic would have preferred face-to-face care, but many liked shorter waiting times and convenient appointments, according to new data.
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Online sexual predators are increasingly coercing young girls into filming their own sexual abuse, internet safety experts have warned. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) confirmed 68,000 cases of self-generated child
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