New Advice to Help Parents Discuss Harmful Online Content

Disney Rebuked For Scaring Kids With ‘Predator: Badlands’ Ad Featuring Severed Body

Disney has been censured by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for running a digital Predator: Badlands ad featuring a severed body. The Mouse House has been banned from running the ad in its current form after the ASA ruled that it was likely to “cause fear or distress for young children.” The digital video poster went live in November, featuring Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi’s character Dek holding aloft a smaller, human figu…

How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show.

Warning for all UK households who've taken part in ChatGPT caricature trend - Birmingham Live

Sumit Kumar of Birmingham-based digital solutions experts Creative Ideaz has issued the warning.

Parents demand change after ‘inappropriate' AI-generated video shared among students

Parents from Radnor Township School District spoke out at Tuesday's board meeting after inappropriate AI-generated images were shared among students.

Children need protection from 'dangerous appearance-changing products' online, commissioner says

More than half of girls have seen online ads for filler and Botox and 41% of 13- to 17-year-olds have seen promotions for prescription-only weight loss drugs, a new report has found.

Children in England ‘bombarded’ with online ads for harmful products

Teenagers routinely see content promoting weight-loss drugs, steroids and skin-whitening creams, research finds Children are being “bombarded” with harmful products online, including weight-loss drugs, steroids and skin-whitening chemicals, a study has found.Research conducted for the children’s commissioner for England found that teenagers were routinely exposed to harmful products on social media, video games and apps. Continue reading...