Show Notes
The Big Tech Gut Check is a super quick, weekly update on all things social media and Big Tech.
Social Media & Big Tech highlights for this week:
- Instagram Announces New Education Campaign to Fight Sextortion
- Meta Exposed Documentary by Channel 7 News
- Meta Confirms Layoffs Across Companies
- Social Media Faces Big Changes in UK Under New Ofcom Rules
- First UK-US Online Safety Agreement to Keep Kids Safe Online
- Survey: Colorado Teens use Social media More and at Younger Ages
List of end-to-end encrypted apps to block from your child's device:
- Signal
- Telegram
- Facebook Messenger
- Wire
- Element
- AWS Wickr
- Briar
- Pryvate Messenger
- SafeChat
- SafeSwiss
- Proton Mail
- SimpleX Chat
- Confide
- Delta Chat
- CoverMe
- P2P Messenger
- Olvid
- xPal
- TeleGuard
Check back on Fridays for everything that parents need to know about the platforms our children are spending hours on every day.
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