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Schools/Young People |
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Rewilding the smartphone generation: One school's story
Could an entire generation be suffering serious and irreversible damage from smartphones and what should we do? |
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(BBC) Roblox: A Dangerous Game?
Is the gaming platform Roblox doing enough to stop children being exploited and groomed? |
Online Risks |
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Sexting
When someone sends a sexual message, picture, or video |
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Gambling: A Game of Life and Death
Documentary looking at the devastating personal consequences of gambling addiction for two young men, including powerful testimony from their friends and family. |
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What is Online Grooming
Grooming is when someone seeks to build an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for sexual purposes |
Criminal/Anti-Social |
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Most Convincing Scams of 2023
Which magazine report of scams mid-way through last year |
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Unwanted Contact
When someone keeps speaking to someone who doesn't want to speak to them |
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Living with Andrew Tate
A British woman tells File on 4 about her relationship with controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate |
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The Missing Cryptoqueen (BBC)
Dr Ruja Ignatova persuaded millions to join her financial revolution. Then she disappeared. Why? |
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Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con
The shocking story of the rise and fall of one of Instagram’s first super-influencers |
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Long Distance: A Reporter Visits the Scammer Who Called Him
This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman. |
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Long Distance Part II
This week, a telephone scammer makes a terrible mistake. He calls Alex Goldman. |
Privacy |
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Every scary thing Meta knows about you
Data journalist Matilda Davies requested all the information Meta had been collected on her. What she uncovered shocked her. |
Trends |
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Why are Gen Z stalking their partners?
Are the young becoming accustomed to high level monitoring in romantic relationships |
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How a Canadian woman accidentally invented one of the internet's most toxic male communities
"Reply All" from Gimlet |
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Nicola Bulley and the TikTok detectives
Who were the TikTok detectives sharing theories online, and were they motivated by anything bigger than clicks and followers? |
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Noreena Hertz on the Lonely Century
Noreena Hertz of University College London talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts |
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The Coming Storm (BBC)
The Coming Storm is the story of events leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Jan 6 2021 |
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Britain's new far-right (Pt2): The Nazi YouTuber
A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP |
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Britain's new far-right (Pt1): A lockdown creation
A Times investigation into Patriotic Alternative, the brainchild of the former youth leader of the BNP |
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Why People Defend Dictators Online
Idrees Ahmad is Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling and a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books |
Fakes |
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The Alan MacMasters' toaster hoax
The anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax about the inventor of the electrical toaster |
[Unclassified] |
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BBC 6 Minute English: Social Media and Teenage Health
What are the risks of social media to teenage health and what can be done about them? |
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The Ethics of AI
Professor Michael Sandel on "The Public Philosopher", Radio 4 |