09-26 NEW REPORT: Instagram Teen Accounts = Broken Promises = Harm to Kids #KOSANow
Fairplay launched their new report, Teen Accounts, Broken Promises: How Instagram is Failing to Protect Minors. They tested 47 of Meta’s Instagram safety tools for teen accounts and found that two out of three are ineffective or nonexistent, leaving children at dire risk of harm and abuse. This report was done in partnership with Meta […]
09-25 DANGER. Extremists Used Discord to Recruit American Youth, Officials Warn This Year
State and federal law enforcement agencies warned earlier this year that young people were at risk of radicalization on the chat platform Discord, according to government documents obtained by NBC News. Two intelligence assessments from the Department of Homeland Security and Ohio’s Statewide Terrorism Analysis & Crime Center (STACC) marked for distribution to police specifically […]
09-24 Officials Issue Warnings About Dangerous TikTok Challenges After Two Stunts End In Tragedy
TikTok challenge prompts criminal charges in Northampton County The Northampton County District Attorney is issuing a warning to the public after a teen died and another suffered ‘catastrophic head injuries’ due to a TikTok challenge. The Brief Officials in Pennsylvania are warning against the dangers of social media challenges after a teen died and another […]
09-23 Using AI Increases Unethical Behavior, NEW Study Finds
“Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions — it can induce them to request behaviors they wouldn’t necessarily engage in themselves, nor potentially request from other humans,” said behavioral scientist and study co-author Zoe Rahwan, of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, in a statement about the […]
09-22 NYC’s High Rate of Chronic Absenteeism: 1 in 3 Students Missed 10% of School Year
One in three New York City public school students was chronically absent last school year, which is defined as missing at least 10% of school days, according to statistics released Wednesday. That represents a slight dip from the 2023-24 school year, when 34.8% of students were chronically absent. But it is still considerably higher than […]
09-21 GREAT NEWS! Students Turn Back to Books as More School Districts Implement Phone Bans
Students at a school district in Kentucky are putting down their phones and cracking books at a record pace now that devices are banned during class, district officials said. The head-spinning shift from digital to analog is well underway at Jefferson County Public Schools, which serves nearly 97,000 students as Kentucky’s largest school district. Library […]
09-20 The WARRIORS Protest and Demand at Apple Flagship Store Safety Guards on Apps to Protect Kids
Teens, parents, and online safety advocates were protesting outside of Apple’s flagship store in Midtown Manhattan. They say Apple needs to do more to keep young people safe from the dangers of social media. The organizers of the protest were youth advocates from Design It For Us, in partnership with Heat Initiative and the LOG […]
09-19 Big Tech FAILS Our Kids: Lennon Torres & Heat Initiative Join Lynn’s Warriors
The rallying cry is Big Tech is failing to protect kids. Today we are honored to be joined by Lennon Torres from the Heat Initiative, a fearless voice calling out Big Tech for its failures and its complicity in putting children at risk. Lennon, and the Heat Initiative team, have been on the front lines, […]
09-18 NEW TOOL: WHEN KIDS GO MISSING, USE THIS- The Adam Tool
Help find missing kids in your area – Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime. The ADAM Program Interactive Missing Children Dashboard enhances the coordination between NCMEC, the public and authorities, helping to increase the chances of locating missing children faster. To use the dashboard, simply select an area to view real-time data and critical missing child posters with […]
09-17 Teens’ Mental Health Looks Different in 2025. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.
A CDC report earlier this year found that teen depression was up by 60 percent — a number that shocked many mental health professionals. An analysis of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report published by the CDC in 2024 appears to confirm the grim state of teen mental health, reporting that 40 […]