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Two men who coerced teenage girls to self-harm before sharing their images online jailed

Charlie Johnson, 24, and Prince Singh, 23, wanted their victims to be "scarred for life" after encouraging them to carve names into themselves

The Independent UK

Online predators who convinced vulnerable teenage girls to self-harm are jailed

Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh urged vulnerable teenage girls to ‘brand’ themselves

Evening Standard

US Teen Dead After Vicious Sextortion Plot As Global Crime Ring '764' Targets Children

A 15-year-old from West Virginia died by suicide after alleged sextortion by the extremist '764' network, which exploits children via social media and gaming, coercing abuse and self-harm.

International Business Times UK

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Women’s prisons report finds 97 deaths in decade as self-harm hits record high

Charity director warns ‘more deaths will follow’ unless government changes tack and closes women’s prisons

The Guardian - UK

‘Greggy’s Cult’ leaders arrested for blackmailing minors into committing ‘horrific acts of self-harm,’ DOJ says

Five men accused of using extortion threats to bully young gamers into performing degrading and sexually explicit acts on web cameras

The Independent UK

Gen Z Australians are attempting suicide and self-harming more than previous generations, study finds

Exclusive: Separate research shows number of young children having suicidal thoughts has risen at ‘alarming’ rate

The Guardian - AU

Keir Starmer and his team mount a leadership challenge … to himself

It’s as if everyone at No 10 has had a collective breakdown, an act of self-harm on an unimaginable scale

The Guardian - UK

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NHS trust fined after woman takes life in mental health unit

Alice Figueiredo’s mother has criticised staff for ‘indifference, ignorance, even at times cruelty’

The Independent UK

NHS trust fined £565,000 after woman killed herself on ‘death trap’ ward

Alice Figueiredo, 22, died in 2015 on the Hepworth ward at Goodmayes hospital after 18 similar attempts to self-harm

The Guardian - UK

How teen friendships may predict self harm

Most of us know what it’s like to be a teenager at school – and how it feels to fit into (or fall outside of) a school’s social hierarchy. This typically includes some version of the popular kids, the loners and the in-betweeners, who have friendships that span across different…

The Conversation

Character.AI bans teen chats amid lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny

The move follows lawsuits alleging Character.AI’s chatbots encouraged self-harm and ongoing investigations into child safety.

Fortune

TikTok under scrutiny as toxic videos reach young users within minutes

Teens can be shown self-harm and suicide content on TikTok within minutes of joining the app, Amnesty International has warned, as families in France pursue legal action and MPs examine the platform’s impact on young users.

Radio France Internationale

ChatGPT’s safety guardrails allegedly loosened — because clicks matter more than care

A bereaved family suggests OpenAI deliberately weakened ChatGPT's self-harm prevention safety guardrails to drive more user engagement.

Windows Central

‘Vile’ online groomer is first in UK to be jailed for encouraging a child to self-harm

Karl Davies sentenced to 20 years after sexually abusing 14-year-old girl he had contacted on Discord app

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ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

The Independent UK

Half of girls exposed to harmful content online with teens twice as likely to see it on TikTok and X

Research from the Molly Rose Foundation found teenagers were twice as likely to encounter ‘high risk’ content on TikTok and X than other major platforms

Guitar World

“Modelers are like Spotify. I’d never get excited about a box that has every single tone”: My pedalboard is so huge it’s got wheels. But switching to modelers costs guitarists their identity

Tom Peters, guitarist for UK math-rock heroes Alpha Male Tea Party, reckons that while we’re losing back pain in reducing the physical weight of our rigs, we’re causing ourselves creative self-harm

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Worries mount as Theo Von threatens self-harm at Netflix special taping

Fans have rallied to support the comic and podcaster.

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The Independent UK

Ambulance callouts to suicide and self-harm incidents up by fifth in a year

The Samaritans said the Government must set a standard of suicide prevention training and wellbeing support for all emergency workers.

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People Notice An Eerie Detail As Charlie Kirk Suspect Tyler Robinson Appears In Court

“Tyler, is this you? This looks like you,” Tyler Robinson’s father asked him as pictures and videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassin began circulating online.

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Man Claims Charlie Kirk Bullied Him So ‘Relentlessly’ In High School That He Nearly Lost His Will To Live

“He bullied me to the point where I considered self-harm,” the man said, unable to forgive Kirk.

AAP

Crackdown on 'lawful but awful' content to protect kids

Regulations are being introduced to stop AI chatbots having sexual conversations with children or encouraging them to self-harm.

Evening Standard

Online Safety Act to be tightened on self-harm exposure

Samaritans said communications regulator Ofcom must ‘use their powers to hold platforms to account so we can save more lives lost to suicide’.

LiveScience

'Extremely alarming': ChatGPT and Gemini respond to high-risk questions about suicide — including details around methods

Researchers have found that OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude can give direct responses to 'high-risk' questions about suicide. In Live Science's testing, ChatGPT and Gemini responded to even more extreme questions.

Benzinga

OpenAI Sued After Parents Say Empathy-Mimicking ChatGPT Gave Their Teen Detailed Suicide Instructions While AI Company's Valuation Soared

On Tuesday, the parents of a California teenager who died by suicide sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming ChatGPT encouraged their son's death by providing detailed self-harm instructions and fostering emotional dependence in long-term conversations.

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