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Another victory for families! It now looks like Sonic Drive-In is now off “Little Demon.”

After airing FOUR ad spots the previous week, Sonic ran ZERO ads on the most recent episode! Not only that, other corporations we had reached out to privately also appear to have pulled their sponsorship.

So far, EVERY company we’ve asked you to contact about “Little Demon” appears to have pulled their sponsorship.

This is great news for families!

We are seeing great success, thanks to you and your activism, so let’s keep the momentum going!

A new sponsor this week is KFC, part of the Yum! Brands family of restaurants – and a chain that was built around family meals together.

Ads for KFC ran in all three commercial breaks during the most recent episode.

So KFC needs to hear from you. They need to know that this is unacceptable, and that their sponsorship behavior will inform your purchasing behavior.

Take action now by clicking HERE to send your message to KFC/Yum! Brands.

Let’s send a LOUD and CLEAR message to Disney and FXX that if they want to pollute the airwaves with this kind of toxic content, they will have to eat the cost — because no responsible sponsor will want to be associated with it.

Learn more here. 

Gabrielle Carlson was ready to pull the fire alarm. It was October 2021, and Carlson, then president of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, saw a world of kids in crisis: Soaring rates of depression and anxiety. Families under siege by pandemic-fueled disruptions. Dramatic increases in emergency room visits for childhood psychiatric crises.

And then there were the suicides.

Nearly 1 in 10 high school students admitted they had tried to take their own life in the previous 12 months, according to a survey published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 1 in 5 had seriously considered it.

Suicide rates among adolescents had risen nearly 53 percent between 2010 and 2020; it was now the second-leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 18. Then came the pandemic, and the lockdowns, and the isolation, and the increased reliance on virtual schooling and socializing. And everything got worse.

Read more here.

The U.S. Advisory Council on Human Trafficking comprises 11 Survivor Leaders who bring their expertise and experience to advise and provide recommendations to the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (PITF) to improve federal anti-trafficking policies.

The Council was established on May 29, 2015, in section 115 of the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015, Pub. L. 114-22, also known as the Survivors of Human Trafficking Empowerment Act. In December 2019, June 2020, and January 2021, the President appointed members of the Council to:

• Provide advice and recommendations to the U.S. government, specifically the Senior Policy Operating Group (SPOG) and the PITF [1], to strengthen federal policy and programming efforts that reflect best practices in the anti-trafficking field.
• Review federal U.S. government policy and programs intended to combat human trafficking, including programs relating to the provision of services for victims.
• Gather information from U.S. government agencies, states, and the community for the Council’s annual report.
• Publish an annual report that contains the findings derived from reviews conducted of federal government policy and programs.
• Serve as a point of contact for federal agencies reaching out to human trafficking survivors for input on anti-trafficking programming and policies in the United States.
  • Represent the diverse population of human trafficking survivors across the United States.

   

• The Council brings expertise from members’ personal experiences of human trafficking as well as members’ ongoing work and leadership in various national, state, and local anti-trafficking efforts. Information about each Council member is provided on pages 4 and 5.

Read full report here.

An independent investigation into the popular online streaming platform Twitch has revealed several disturbing reports of child predator behavior. Approximately 280,000 children were targeted over a span of nearly two years.

Reader discretion is advised, as this article contains references to child abuse.

The independent investigation, conducted by Bloomberg, identified the mass targeting of children by child predators, who would coerce the young streamers into doing lewd acts on stream. According to the results, approximately 2,000 users were discovered to be specifically following younger streamers during the 22-month period of research.

Of those nearly 2,000 users, hundreds of them followed over 1,000 child streamers exclusively, which, according to the researchers, indicated “that many exist primarily to catalog, watch, and manipulate children.”

In an official statement to Bloomberg, Twitch said that “Preventing child harm is one of our most fundamental responsibilities as a society. We do not allow children under 13 to use Twitch, and preventing our service from being used for harm is one of our biggest priorities.”

Read more here.

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The Parents Television and Media Council put out an urgent alert to write advertisers of this horrific animation. Please learn more about this animation and the harms caused. Then sign the letter to Sonic Drive-In and ask them to stop advertising on this program. We’ve been successful in stopping Burger King, T-Mobile and Olive Garden. We need your help. Learn more about “Little Demon” and hit the send button. We need all of you. We cannot do this alone.

Learn more and sign letter here.