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online safety and digital citizenship specialist

Adults who work with Young People News

01 November 2025

'We are sleepwalking directly into our next obesity epidemic. One designed directly to appeal to our consumerist tendencies, to appease our need for dopamine, and offers light reprieve from our daily dystopian depression. But, rather than a diet of greasy takeaway fries and sugar-stuffed chocolate priced low at the checkout to drive impulse purchases, this next threat is to our creative minds.'

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25 October 2025

At the top end far-right activist Tommy Robinson charges £28 per minute for coaching through the slick app Minnect, where followers can get his advice and viewpoints on topics related to anti-Islam activism and political commentary. However, across the country other local patrol groups are posing as charities and soliciting donations for ‘equipment’ while operating without police recognition.

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24 October 2025

TikTok has become a go-to source for health advice for millions of people. But when you search for treatments for cancer and autism, the vast majority of the videos first served to you feature claims about treatments that are not supported by science

 

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13 October 2025

Trade unions and online safety experts have urged MPs to investigate TikTok’s plans to make hundreds of jobs for UK-based content moderators redundant.

The video app company is planning 439 redundancies in its trust and safety team in London, leading to warnings that the jobs losses will have implications for online safety.

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04 October 2025

"I think this is the worst scam in the world," said Paul Raffile, a sextortion and cybercrime researcher based in Connecticut. "There is no other scam that involves targeting children, coercing them into a sexually compromising situation, exploiting them, blackmailing them. There's no other scams that I think even compare to this."

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