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Organization for Social Media Safety & D.A.R.E. International Announce New Collaboration

Students Across the Country Will Receive Lessons On Growing Social Media-Related Dangers Like Cyberbullying, Sexting and Human Trafficking Los Angeles — With social media use surging among tweens and teens as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Organization for Social Media Safety and D.A.R.E. International have announced a groundbreaking collaboration to teach essential social…

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Organization for Social Media Safety & D.A.R.E. International Announce New Collaboration

Terrorism on Social Media

Terrorist groups often use social media platforms to disseminate hate and extreme violence.  We wanted to let you know that parents around the country are receiving alerts from schools and elected officials over concerns that terrorists plan to disseminate distressing videos, including of hostages, through social media.  These officials are generally urging parents to delete TikTok and Instagram from their children’s devices…

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Terrorism on Social Media

Snapchat’s Family Center: A New Talking Point Not a Tool

This month, Snap, Inc. (“Snap”) announced a new safety tool called Family Center.  Unfortunately, after review, the Organization for Social Media Safety believes that it will not have any meaningful impact on child safety. With Snapchat’s Family Center, parents, after requesting permission from their child, can see a list of who their child is friends with…

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Snapchat’s Family Center: A New Talking Point Not a Tool

Anonymous Apps: What Parents Need To Know

Unfortunately, apps that allow anonymous messaging between teens are seeing a resurgence.  In recent weeks, the anonymous app NGL has exceeded 15 million installs.  Parents, and teens, need to be aware of the real danger of anonymous messaging. While the mechanics of various anonymous messaging apps can differ, the concept is consistent.  These apps allow…

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DEEPFAKES AND FAKE NEWS POSE A GROWING THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, EXPERTS WARN

April 1, 2022News@Northeastern One of the most problematic uses of the technology is when an individual’s likeness, typically a woman’s, is manipulated and put on a sexually explicit video, making it appear as if the individual they are targeting is participating in the sexual activity, says Marc Berkman, the executive director of the Organization for…

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Social Media & Drugs: What Parents Need To Know

Sammy Chapman was an amazing kid, sweet, funny, curious, and an A student. His parents Sam and Laura worked hard to keep him away from dangerous people and places. But, like most parents, they had no idea that drug dealers were preying on their children using social media platforms. And they had no idea illegal,…

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Social Media & Drugs: What Parents Need To Know

Threats of School Violence

This week, you may have heard about a so-called “National Day of School Violence” threat being spread on social media.   Reportedly, the threats originated on the social media platform TikTok, though that has not definitively been established.   Regardless, posts about the threats spread quickly over social media causing worry across the country and even forcing some schools to shut…

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Threats of School Violence

Time to Get Serious About Social Media Safety

Big Social Media has had a particularly rough two months of press. Almost daily, articles have graced the front pages of newspapers highlighting grave social media-related dangers affecting our families.  We hope that parents and educators do not become overwhelmed by the sheer breadth of these reports, but rather that all this evidence serves as…

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Time to Get Serious About Social Media Safety