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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Amy Browne

Is the internet becoming too harmful for children and young people?

We’re all aware of the part social media played in swaying public opinion of the covid pandemic.

See also recent high profile legal cases. But are you aware of how easily your child can be encouraged to try an extremely dangerous challenge, simply by seeing it on TikTok?

Even seeing something over the shoulder of a friend, on a phone that doesn’t belong to them, on an app they haven’t downloaded, is enough to plant an idea firmly and compel them to try it out. Children aged between eight and 12 are said to be most at risk.

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