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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Katie Hawkinson

How you can keep your child safe on social media as new study found ‘systemic issues’ with many features

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.

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