Instagram’s latest anti-bullying initiative uses AI to detect bullying in photos
Ben Lovejoy
Instagram has announced that it is stepping up its anti-bullying efforts by using AI to detect signs of bullying in photos and captions …
Instagram last year began using machine-learning to identify words and phrases in comments that might indicate bullying, and The Verge reports that the company is now aiming to do the same visually.
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More cellphone use by children could mean more bullying — online and offline
By Elizabeth Englander
Each year, more parents send their young child to elementary school equipped with a smartphone.
For instance, the percentage of third-graders who reported having their own cellphone more than doubled from 19 percent in 2013 to 45 percent in 2017. Similar increases took place for fourth-graders and fifth-graders. About 50 percent of fourth-graders and 70 percent of fifth-graders went to school with a phone in 2017.
Parents often cite the ability to easily reach their child as the major advantage of giving them a device, which they view as a safety issue. “Stranger danger” and sexual predators are often the first risks that occur to parents. Some public schools are adopting policies that limit personal contact between students and teachers.
But bullying and cyberbullying are more common concerns, and in my 2017 research, I found that giving a young child a cellphone increases the likelihood that the child will either become a victim of bullying or a bully themselves.
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disABILITY Resource Center hosting Be A Friend Festival
By: WATE 6 On Your Side staff
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – The Be A Friend Festival is a free, kid-friendly event to share resources, specifically for anti-bullying, for participants to know that they are not alone.
The festival is hosted by the nonprofit disABILITY Resource Center Knoxville. There are other locations throughout the state, with a mission to provide services including peer support, advocacy, independent living skills and more for people from diverse backgrounds.
For the festival to garner its anti-bullying theme, research was key.
“In research, we found kids who are from diverse minority groups experience bullying at a much higher rate than other children,” said Katherine Moore, an independent living specialist at disABILITY Resource Center. “Unfortunately, it is many times a belief that bullying is something kids just have to go through to grow up. It’s not. Bullying has gotten to be a very important issue, a very tragic issue.”
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