Tools to keep your kids safe on social media have ‘critical’ flaws, study finds. So is there any hope of protecting them?
- How to keep children safe on social media has become a hot-button issue - and new research suggesting many online safety tools for kids may have “critical” flaws will only add fuel to that fire.
- Researchers tested 86 safety features across four social media platforms — Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube — and found about 60 percent of those tools “do not live up” to the promises made by these companies.
- “If you are a parent, you should know that we have found systemic issues with the design and implementation of many of these features,” reads the report from online safety nonprofit, Heat I
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- How to keep children safe on social media has become a hot-button issue - and new research suggesting many online safety tools for kids may have “critical” flaws will only add fuel to that fire.
- Researchers tested 86 safety features across four social media platforms — Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube — and found about 60 percent of those tools “do not live up” to the promises made by these companies.
- “If you are a parent, you should know that we have found systemic issues with the design and implementation of many of these features,” reads the report from online safety nonprofit, Heat I
Sources: The Independent