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Tool allows users to see if they have engaged with Russian propaganda entity the Internet Research Agency, but won’t reach millions already exposed to fake news

Why internet procrastination is making life easier for hackers

The Muslim children in my classroom withdrew from political debate when the Prevent counter-terrorism strategy cast me as an informant. Rob Faure Walker a PhD candidate and tutor in MA Education, UCL writes

Teaching union raises concerns as survey shines a light on the online abuse faced by teachers and suggests that many schools do not help staff to navigate social media

The toys your kids unwrap this Christmas could invite hackers into your home. That Grinch-like warning comes from the FBI, which said earlier this year that toys connected to the internet could be a target for crooks who may listen in on conversations or use them to steal a child's personal information.

More than one in four teenagers – an estimated 70,000 young people in the East Midlands – say they couldn’t enjoy Christmas without social media according to a new survey carried out for The Children’s Society.

Parents are suing schools that don’t protect their children from harm.

The current guidance was last updated in 2000. As a result, it does not address any of the risks to pupils that have grown in prevalence in recent years, such as sexting, online grooming and pornography.

The severity of abuse conducted online during 2017’s general election has brought the issue into sharp focus for politicians, some of whom have urged the prime minister to legislate against Facebook, Twitter and Google to make them liable for content posted on their sites.

Charity made more than 4,600 referrals to police and social services in 2016-17, a ‘deeply worrying’ rise on the previous year

How UK schools' approaches to mobile phones vary widely

Sexual harassment or violence at school should never be dismissed as "banter", new Department for Education guidance to schools and colleges has stressed. "Sexting" explicit images and videos of under-18s is illegal, it says, and girls are the most likely victims.

10 steps for safe online shopping from the Sainsbury's Bank, Money Matters Team

The suspect is also thought to have messaged other young girls at the victim's college

The woman at the head of Suffolk police's attempts to clamp down on cybercrime has described social media as the bane of her life.

The head of the Gambling Commission said it would crackdown on computer-game currencies and upgrades which are being used to gamble for real money

A Cornwall school has warned parents that large numbers of its students are downloading an app dubbed the ‘Tinder for teens’, which could be used by sex offenders to target young people. Yubo (formerly known as Yellow) is available to download for free on mobile phones and describes itself as ‘a social app to meet new friends and have fun with them’.

An expert’s guide for young people

The mother of a 14-year-old boy murdered by an online predator is working with police on a film about his killing as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the sexual exploitation of boys.

Facebook and Twitter are to be made safer for younger users as the government has agreed to legislate a code of practice for social media sites setting out a minimum standard for “age-appropriate design”.