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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Emma Gill

Warning over 'tinder-style' Yubo app 'exposing children to racism and bullying'

A warning has been issued over a social media app aimed at young people.

Created 'to make it easy for Gen Z to expand their social circles online with new friends from around the world', the Yubo app has 60 million users and has been described as similar to tinder, but targeted at children.

National Online Safety (NOS), a provider of online safety e-learning and resources for schools, is advising children and young people not to use the app - a message that Lancashire Young People's Services has this week been conveying to schools.

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