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Patrick Burton

@patrickburtonsa.bsky.social
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🇿🇦 researcher. child online protection, child rights, VAC & VAW, violence prevention. consultant @UNICEF Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Pacific Isles and others.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
A Dutch court has ruled Grok must stop generating non-consensual undressing images of Dutch residents worldwide and child sexual abuse material in the Netherlands, with €100,000-a-day fines for non-compliance, reports Ramsha Jahangir.
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Dutch Court Orders X, Grok to Stop AI-Generated Sexual Abuse Content
Dutch court bans Grok's nudify tool and hits xAI with €100,000-a-day fines in Europe's first binding injunction against an AI image generator.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
In high-risk communities, online conflict accelerates offline retaliation, write Thomas Abt, Desmond Patton, and Joseph Richardson. Prevention requires coordination and commitment from tech platforms, community violence interrupters, researchers, law enforcement and impacted youth.
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Social Media Fuels Community Violence. Prevention Needs an Upgrade.
Online conflict accelerates retaliation and compresses the timeline from conflict to crisis, write Thomas Abt, Desmond Patton, and Joseph Richardson.
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5Rights Foundation @5rightsfound.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Why are some of the world’s most elite schools turning away from screens? In the latest edition of the #TechThisOut! podcast, 5Rights Youth Ambassador Mithesh speaks with Mark West (UNESCO) about whether EdTech is living up to its promises or leaving students behind.
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5Rights Foundation @5rightsfound.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Children didn’t choose to grow up in a digital world designed to exploit them. 5 years after GC25 affirmed their rights in the digital world, we join 55+ organizations calling on leaders to enforce rights-respecting, age-appropriate design. 5rightsfoundation.com/resource/unc...
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection
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‘I’ve lost my friends’: advocacy groups warn Australia’s social media ban risks isolating kids with disabilities
Despite the ban’s aim to protect young people, experts are concerned that those in marginalised communities or living with disabilities could lose vital support networks
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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
A lot of you resonated with this post about my choice to leave Twitter (thanks!). Now, I've spoken with @stokel.bsky.social for a British Medical Journal article about Royal Colleges and institutions leaving X. My thoughts here: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Royal Colleges of Physicians and General Practitioners join the X exodus—why medical leaders are refusing to tweet
A series of medical royal colleges are stepping back from Elon Musk’s social media platform X after issues of abuse and hatred. Three have left, and two more are reviewing their activity. Chris Stokel...
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Patrick Burton @patrickburtonsa.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This this THIS! Social media bans might (?) be well-intentioned, but are completely missing the root and nature of the issue, and will likely leave young people even less equipped to deal with what they encounter online.
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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
@sonialivingstone.bsky.social spoke at the International Meeting on children’s rights & #AI: “We must move beyond safety-by-design & privacy-by-design to embrace #ChildRights by Design.” 📜 Declaration of Intent presented to #PopeLeo XIV: lnkd.in/d__K65y7 #ChildRights #DigitalSafety #ChildDignity
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In this #OpenAccess paper, Jessica Bezek et al. investigate unique profiles of resilience in a relatively large sample of adolescents exposed to moderate to severe neighborhood disadvantage. Read the full paper to learn more! bit.ly/3L7Mkn1
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Examining resilience to adversity across multiple behavioral domains (e.g., psychological well-being, social functioning) can better characterize positive development and inform novel pre...
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LSE Department of Media and Communications @lsemedia.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🐦📱 Children face new risks online—and new opportunities. Our #WorldChildrensDay panel explored what’s working, what’s not, and what’s urgently needed to protect their rights in digital spaces. 🎥 Watch: youtu.be/UuVKWzdBcL8 🎧 Listen: www.lse.ac.uk/lse-player?i... @sonialivingstone.bsky.social
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World Children’s Day: digital futures for children | LSE Event
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Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What actions are necessary to work effectively at the intersections of violence against women and violence against children? Read more of the #ChildGauge2025 recommendations in the full research publication or the policy brief: bit.ly/4oqDxv4 #EndViolence #16Days
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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
What a valuable read for parents and young people all around the world. The Digital Abstinence Movement will come knocking. Best to start thinking how to preserve your data and social ties before they're taken away.
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a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .
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Patrick Burton @patrickburtonsa.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Challenge to Australia social media ban for U-16s: rather than the ban, “bring us into safer spaces, with rules that work: age‑appropriate features, privacy‑first age assurance, and fast takedowns.”
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Andrew Przybylski @shuhbillskee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
More seriously, looks like young people in Australia know how to read bona fide scientific research and are keen to exercise their internationally recognised human rights... Instead of silly abstinence, let's use science to make the internet an empowering place!
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Patrick Burton @patrickburtonsa.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Couldn't be a more timely launch of this #DigitalFutures4Children report later today as children’s rights come under increasing pressure in the digital environment (and indeed, everywhere). Looking forward to catching it online! www.lse.ac.uk/events/digit... @5rightsfound.bsky.social #ChildRights
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Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
📌📄 In case you missed it: Our Child Gauge 2025 poster. It explains key concepts & levers for change to #EndViolence against women & children. It also sets out recommendations for strengthening systems. Break the silos. Break the cycle. Keen to read more about this? 🔗 bit.ly/4oqDxv4 #ChildGauge2025
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Patrick Burton @patrickburtonsa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I wrote something! “It is past time to move beyond campaigns to raise awareness of these forms of (school) violence, as important as they are to draw attention to the problem.” #safeschools #endviolence @childrensinstitute.bsky.social www.news24.com/opinions/ana...
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ANALYSIS | Beyond punishment: Systematic solutions to end school violence | News24
Schools must transition from being environments that potentially reinforce violence into powerful platforms that disrupt it, writes Patrick Burton.
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Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Now underway: Launch of SA #ChildGauge2025. The focus of this year's edition is intersections of violence against women and children. Key findings are presented by @lucycpt.bsky.social (editor, Senior Researcher Children's Institute) & Prof Shanaaz Mathews (editor, UCT Health Sciences) #EndViolence
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Children's Institute, University of Cape Town @childrensinstitute.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Launching Tuesday 4 Nov 📗📊 ‘South African Child Gauge 2025 Intersections of violence against women and children: Disrupting intergenerational harm.’ Tomorrow we release our new research publication #ChildGauge2025, its policy brief and an easy-to-read poster summary of findings & recommendations.
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5Rights Foundation @5rightsfound.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🎮 Gaming offers huge opportunities for kids - but also serious risks. 🇧🇷🇬🇧 New research from the Digital Futures for Children centre (DFC) maps how the gaming ecosystem shapes children’s experiences in Brazil and the UK. 🔗 eprints.lse.ac.uk/130029 #ChildRights #Gaming
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Patrick Burton @patrickburtonsa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
At my first event in South Africa for a few years (6!),the launch of the @childrensinstitute.bsky.social Child Gauge 2025, on the Intersections between violence against women and children (I wrote the chapter on schools!). Lovely to see some old friends.
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🚨NEW PAPER ALERT 🚨 @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social and I discuss wellness chatbots, their labor implications, & "private vibes" vs "privacy". We call for critical human-AI communication scholarship that takes into account context & political economy: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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A chatbot for the soul: mental health care, privacy, and intimacy in AI-based conversational agents - Communication and Change
Artificial intelligence-based conversational agents—chatbots—are increasingly integrated into telehealth platforms, employee wellness programs, and mobile applications to address structural gaps in me...
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John Bailey @isucceed.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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Denmark Makes History: Your Face and Voice Are Now Your Intellectual Property
Europe's First Digital Identity Protection Law Tackles the Deepfake Crisis Denmark is poised to become the first European nation to grant citizens copyright control over their own faces, voices, and ...
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David Buckingham @davidbuckingham1.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
'I can see it in your face': the perils of age verification online davidbuckingham.net/2025/08/01/i...
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‘I can see it in your face’: the perils of age verification online
As the UK’s Online Safety Act begins to be implemented, some well-established critical questions are arising once again. Will we ever be able to prevent children accessing material that we deem to …
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Sonia Livingstone @sonialivingstone.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
⚠️ Child Rights Impact Assessment: A Policy Tool for a Rights‐Respecting Digital Environment - just published o/a by @Livingstone_S @Kruakae_Noony #DigitalFutures4Children @5RightsFound @MediaLSE #CRIA #DigitalEnvironment #ChildRights #GeneralComment25 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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