HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - Caught on Camera

The Nightmare Upstairs: Why two siblings locked themselves in a room for 54 days

Two-part Hulu documentary about the bitter custody battle between two Utah parents is out now

The Independent UK · May 20

Limit social media ban for under-16s to unsafe apps, Starmer urged

Campaigners warn against blanket restrictions and say focus should be on blocking teenagers from platforms with ‘risky’ features

The Guardian - UK · May 20

NSPCC reports sharp rise in children being blackmailed over sexual images in UK

Charity says calls to its Childline service about online sexual abuse and exploitation have risen 36% in a year

The Guardian - UK · May 14

Children being ‘failed’ by tech companies as sex abuse image crimes rise by almost 10%

NSPCC chief executive Chris Sherwood said tech firms “can do more to prevent this from happening in the first place”

The Independent UK · Mar 17

Narrow social media bans are not the right way to protect our youngsters

We should be able to provide children with the connection that social media provides without addictive algorithms

Evening Standard · Mar 9

West Virginia sues Apple over child sex abuse material stored and shared on iCloud

Attorney general JB McCuskey, a Republican, calls case the first of its kind by a government agency against company

The Guardian - US · Feb 19

Starmer vows to fast-track social media law but says under-16s ban not definite

Prime minister says action will be taken on young people’s social media access in ‘months, not years’

The Guardian - UK · Feb 16

Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal

Starmer to announce ‘crackdown on vile illegal content created by AI’ after scandal involving Elon Musk’s Grok tool

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15

Revealed: How London nursery worker Vincent Chan’s horrific campaign of child abuse was uncovered by chance

Paedophile Vincent Chan, 45, attacked girls so defenceless they ‘didn’t have a voice’ at a Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead and downloaded a million indecent images

Evening Standard · Feb 12

Safer Internet Day: How parents can protect children without banning social media

Here are some ways parents can keep their children safe online without having to restrict social media entirely.

Euronews · Feb 10