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Cameras have been getting smaller and smaller, but is the technology becoming too easy to conceal? Jess Davies goes undercover into the controversial world of hidden camera videos, and takes on those sharing illegal content online.
You never really know who’s recording.
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Some days, Lauren found herself stuck scrolling Instagram for up to 13 hours a day trying to sustain her growing profile.
Struggling with self-harm and an eating disorder, she says she was continually exposed to harmful content on the app: “Having an eating disorder, it's really easy for you to fall into... a trigger hole.”
How much responsibility should tech companies take for what vulnerable users are shown?
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Instagram changed the world, one picture at a time. But behind the scenes at Meta, researchers were quickly discovering how the algorithms were altering our relationships with body image - particularly in young people.
Our next doc uncovers exactly what employees knew from those within the company, and the devastating effects it had on people caught in the scroll-trap.
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He started an Instagram account to document his journey with cancer, but was met with accusations of lies, fraud and theft on the gossip site Tattle Life. And even after Richard Davies died in 2023, many people on the forum couldn’t accept his death was real.
Do you think more needs to be done to protect individuals from harm or harassment online?
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In 2017, the controversial online forum Tattle Life went live. With millions of social media followers, @gkbarry knows all too well what can happen when you're the subject of internet rumour and speculation.
She goes inside to ask where online chatter ends and real-world harm begins, and attempts to track down the elusive owner behind it all.
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After a 12-year-old girl reported being catfished online, police traced the account to Northern Ireland.
As they analysed the seized devices, the scale of the case began to emerge…
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When a 12-year-old girl reported she had been catfished online, police traced the account to a teenager in Northern Ireland.
What they uncovered would become one of the world’s largest online child sexual abuse investigations.
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