Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It’s also renaming the “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile” to make it clear when a profile features an AI-generated person that’s not a real human being.
Analysis by The Observer has found that tech abuse plays a significant role in the most serious domestic abuse cases, featuring in two in five domestic homicides in the UK. Domestic abuse commissioner Nicole Jacobs said the analysis showed the “devastating consequences” of technology abuse, and called for stronger responses from police and public services.
At the Revenge Porn Helpline, they are increasingly growing concerned about material that includes the drugging and filming of individuals who in many cases are also being sexually assaulted.
In these cases, victims may have been incapacitated, unconscious and unaware they were being subjected to sexual violence which is being filmed. The resulting images and videos are then uploaded and shared online.
YouTube is still recommending eating disorder videos to teenage users a year after new rules were introduced to curb harmful online content, according to new research.
It found one in 10 videos recommended by YouTube's Up Next algorithm featured thinspiration, extreme calorie restriction or other harmful material.
A social media ban for under-16s has been announced by the UK government. It will be introduced in early 2027.
The goverment is also considering an overnight curfew and measures to stop infinite scrolling for under-18s.
The "Great British People" Facebook page, which purports to be from Yorkshire, has had 1.3 million views for its latest video of an elderly white British man crying about his pension. Other videos show reporters discussing "the overwhelming scale of mass immigration" and asking viewers if they miss "the Britain we used to know".
But it is not clear whether the creator of the videos knows the UK at all: the account is really run by someone based in Sri Lanka.
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