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In Meta's trial, families of social media victims see pivotal moment for online safety

Written on it in black ink were the names of children and young adults who have died from social media related harms, including deaths by suicide after bouts of cyberbullying or sextortion. Giovanni, an 11-year-old, Bubba, a 13-year-old, and Englyn, a 14-year-old, were among the nearly 600 names. Parents said…

The Economic Times

In Meta's trial, families of social media victims see a pivotal moment for online safety

Advocates and parents of social media victims see the trial underway against Meta Platforms as a significant moment in their fight for online child safety

The Independent UK

The US lags other countries in social media restrictions for kids, but a reform push is growing

A campaign for stronger online safety measures for children in the U.S. is gaining steam with recent jury verdicts against tech giants like Meta and Google and a new push for legislation in Congress

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‘Children are entering a hellscape’: the terrifying film about grieving parents taking on social media giants

Sextortion, suicide scenarios, unwanted sexual advances – all this and more is served up to teens on their phones. Can’t Look Away tells a devastating story of bereft parents trying to hold the likes of Snapchat to account

The Guardian - UK

‘They died because they tried it once’: a US high school was ravaged by fentanyl - and came back from the brink

In Orange county, a former police officer spent years working with students and parents to prevent drug overdoses. When the fentanyl crisis hit, their work was tested in heartbreaking new ways

The Guardian - US

California schools are battling a fentanyl crisis. Why are parents so oblivious?

Fentanyl is now responsible for one in five youth deaths in California. Schools – and parents – are finally catching up. Mike Bedigan and Josh Marcus report

The Independent UK

Their kids died after buying drugs on Snapchat. Now the parents are suing

Suit claims app features like disappearing messages and geolocating users make kids easy targets for dealers

The Guardian - US

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Social media platforms face pressure to stop online drug dealers who target kids

During a House committee hearing Wednesday, parents, activists and law enforcement officials accused social media sites of enabling drug dealers to sell fentanyl to young Americans.

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Group urges feds to investigate Snapchat over fentanyl sales

As the U.S. deals with its deadliest overdose crisis to date, a national crime-prevention group is calling on the Justice Department to clamp down on social media’s role in the spread of fentanyl, the drug largely driving a troubling spike in overdose deaths among teenagers

The Independent UK

Teen deaths from fentanyl rising quickly: 'It has a hold on me, and I don't know why'

LOS ANGELES — The summer before 14-year-old Alexander Neville would have entered high school, he sat both of his parents down at the kitchen table in their Aliso Viejo home and told them he'd been taking Oxycontin pills he bought on Snapchat.

Los Angeles Times

Column: Drugs still trafficked in plain sight on Facebook, Snapchat, report says

Subtle they’re not. “Good beans,” the Facebook post said, beside a cascade of blue and white pills and the words “#oxycodone, #xanax, #codeine…#percocets…#drugs…” and a string of slang I’m not hip enough to understand.

The Orange County Register

Drug dealers targeting children with candy-colored fentanyl pills, DEA says

Fentanyl is one of the deadliest drugs on the street — and now it's also pretty.

The Orange County Register

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