7 h. ago Teens could be restricted to two hours of social media under new law

The 'app cap' would also ban children from accessing social media during school hours or after 10pm

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7 h. ago Children could be handed a social media 'curfew' under 'app cap' plan to increase online safety being considered by ministers

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle indicated he was considering an 'app cap' to restrict how much time youths spend on their phones.

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7 h. ago Molly Russell’s father urges PM to act over online harms as ‘app cap’ considered

Ian Russell told Sir Keir Starmer to ‘act decisively’ in toughening legislation to protect young people online.

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28 h. ago Children could be banned from spending more than two hours on any one phone app and blocked from social media after 10pm in new anti

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle is mulling a move to cap the amount of time per app youngsters can spend on their phone as part of a swathe of measures designed to reduce 'doomscrolling'.

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1 week ago School locked down as man arrested over online threats to 'harm children'

"Please be reassured that we are doing everything in our power to keep the children and staff safe. Everyone will remain indoors until we hear otherwise.”

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1 week ago ‘Don’t let her death be in vain’: Father urges UK to help extradite main suspect in daughter’s murder

A father urges one of UK’s most wanted men - the main suspect in his daughter’s rape and murder - to hand himself in

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2 w. ago Three teens dead in a year is a political failure that needs urgent action

Record View says the risks of online harm are becoming more widely known and the epidemic of teenage violence on our streets shows no signs of slowing down.

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3 w. ago Court urged to jail Jakob Ingebrigtsen’s father for ‘regime of repeated abuse’

Prosecutor cites ‘culture of fear in the home’Gjert Ingebrigtsen denies all chargesThe father of the Norwegian track and field superstar Jakob Ingebrigtsen should go to prison for two and a half years for “a regime of repeated abuse” that spanned a decade, prosecutors have told a court in Norway.Summing up the state’s case, the prosecutor Angjerd Kvernenes said that Jakob and his sister, Ingrid, had suffered physical and mental abuse at the hands of their father and former coach, Gjert, which began when Jakob was seven years old. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Coatbridge MP calls for action on harmful impact of online influencers

Speaking in the House of Commons, Frank McNally pressed the Secretary of State on what steps are being taken to prevent social media algorithms from promoting dangerous and misogynistic content.

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last month Man admits to urging vulnerable woman to commit "serious self

He has been charged with encouraging serious self-harm online

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last month Man, 22, urged vulnerable woman he met online to kill herself

Tyler Webb was the first person to be charged with encouraging serious self-harm online

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