The boss of Telegram has been arrested at an airport in France, the BBC reports.
39-year-old Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the popular messaging app, was detained after his private jet landed at Le Bourget Airport north of Paris.
The BBC reports Durov’s arrest came under a warrant for offences relating to having a lack of moderators on the app, with Durov accused of failing to take necessary steps to curb criminal uses on the platform.
When our awe of technology replaces the well-being of our children, action must be taken to ensure safer online experiences for youth.
“Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023” Pew Research Report
-96% use Internet daily
-46% say they are on the internet constantly, up from 24% in 2014-2015
-95% of 13-17 year-olds have access to a smartphone
–Top 5 Social Media Platforms used: YouTube (95%), TikTok (63%), Snapchat (60%) Instagram (59%), , Facebook (33%)
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LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump must make fighting fentanyl a priority, recovery experts and swing-state law-enforcement officials tell The Post.
Close to 300 Americans are daily fatalities from illegal doses of the opioid, federal officials said in May. The synthetic painkillers — almost always originating in China — have flooded across the country’s southern border in recent years.
Wednesday was National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day, established to call attention to the crisis.
Swing states, including North Carolina, Michigan, Virginia and Arizona, each had more than 1,000 fentanyl-related deaths in 2023, an analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drug-death data shows.
The Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children who crossed the border without parents, according to a shocking new report.
Untold numbers of the children — who were released into the US to “qualified sponsors” — are now at risk of sex trafficking, forced labor and other forms of exploitation, a Homeland Security Inspector General’s report released Monday said.
As of May 2024, there are 291,000 migrant children who arrived in the US as unaccompanied minors who were set free and never given a date to appear in immigration court — meaning there is no way to track their whereabouts.
That is in addition to the 32,000 children that Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities released into the US with hearing dates but then failed to show in court, according to the 14-page report — which tracked a period from October 2018 to September 2023.
One federal whistleblower said that she believes many of these vulnerable kids could already be in the hands of criminals and sex traffickers.
Sextortion is a serious and sometimes deadly crime that has increased more than 300% in the past couple of years – and most of it is happening on Instagram. As this crime spreads on their platform, Instagram’s response is getting worse. By not taking sextortion seriously, Instagram is putting thousands of kids at risk of exploitation, abuse, and even death.
Sextortion is a crime where a predator blackmails a victim over sexual or nude images – for money, more images, or something else of value. Teens are the most common victims of sextortion, and predators often initiate contact by pretending to be a peer and asking to exchange sexual images. The #1 place this happens online: Instagram.
Recent analysis of data from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) by Thorn found Instagram was the #1 platform where sextortionists meet kids, as well as the top platform where these predators threaten to share and actually share the images of the kids they are blackmailing. As the top social media platform for sextortion, Instagram should be investing in preventing and reporting this crime. They’re not.
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Middle- and high-school students across the country are chugging energy drinks like water.
From smartphones and social media to TV and tablet-based toys, today’s kids are constantly inundated by technology. While it’s important for children and teens to develop an aptitude for technology, after all, they will use computers their whole lives, too much technology use can have detrimental health and physical effects. The negative effects on children’s health run the gamut from increased risk of obesity to loss of social skills and behavioral problems. Of course, this doesn’t mean parents need to ban technology entirely, but it’s important for parents to be aware of the potential effects of technology on children and develop strategies to limit their children’s screen time.
Technology is everywhere, and while we cannot and should not ban technology entirely, we can set limits for our children to offset some of the negative effects. Too much screen time can affect your child’s physical health as well as their behavior. Learn more about the physical and mental effects of too much of a good thing (read: technology) and discover what you can do to help your child.
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