The charity's annual report said 70% of victims were aged between 11 and 13.
Where boys were included in the material, it tended to be of a more severe category, the IWF said.
The material was found to be predominantly self-generated and usually recorded at home using a phone or webcam
A manipulated video showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a conference call with Elon Musk is circulating online. The footage has been digitally altered to include white powder, which some social media users have said is cocaine on his desk.
Amazon's home robot collects an enormous amount of personal data, rolling deeper into your house than the e-commerce giant's Ring cameras or Alexa voice assistants.
RUSSIA’S INVASION OF Ukraine is not the first social media war—but it is the first to play out on TikTok. The 2011 Arab Spring was fomented and furthered on Twitter and Facebook. Clips of Syrian children choking from chemical weapons filled social media timelines in 2018. And the Taliban’s capture of Kabul, with all the chaos that wrought, was live-tweeted into our homes last year. Images of unspeakable horrors supplanting the banality of status updates and selfies is nothing new. But the current conflict is a very different kind of social media war, fueled by TikTok’s transformative effect on the old norms of tech.
NBC News spoke with 12 social media personalities with audiences ranging from under 100,000 to more than 10 million followers who detailed how they feel pushed to look perfect in real life and online. This has led younger creators in their teens and early 20s to get cosmetic procedures, ranging from lip filler injections to plastic surgery — many of which they received at discounted rates. Many expressed regrets about some of their procedures. Six of them described feeling addicted to body modification.
"I've got most of my information about periods from TikTok," said 18-year-old Efa Angharad.
The sixth-former from Gorslas, Carmarthenshire, said her period education had been "pretty shocking".
It comes as a Swansea University study found menstrual cycle education needed to be addressed in schools.
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