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online safety and digital citizenship specialist

 Tagged with digital literacy


15 April 2023

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children aged 3-17. It also includes findings on parents’ views about their children’s media use, and how parents of children aged 3-17 monitor and manage their children’s online activity.

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iNEQE's brief and clear summary of the report findings is here

06 February 2023

Dakota Fink didn’t mean to spread a lie. Honestly, she didn’t.

It was May 2021 and the 23-year-old LA-based model was wearing a face mask. “I was thinking I needed to be more involved with TikTok,” she says. So she decided to record a video as a joke: She’d pull off the flesh-coloured face mask on camera, and subtitle it with a claim that women had to peel layers of their skin off after their period.

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19 January 2023

These pictures look just like any other group photo taken at any house party. You have the pursed lips, the toasting of paper cups, and the occasional shot of a subject snapping a selfie. The difference is that this is a night these people will never regret, because it’s a false memory and so are its participants.

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30 November 2022

Twitter says it has stopped enforcing its policy on misleading information about coronavirus.

According to the company's website, it stopped taking action against tweets breaching its Covid rules, on Wednesday, 23 November.

Twitter had previously reported suspending more than 11,000 accounts for Covid misinformation as of September this year.

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