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WhatsApp: what parents should know

The world's default group-chat app. Class and team chats put a school's whole social dynamic — including its bullying — on a child's phone, day and night.

1 advisory for WhatsApp

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Group-chat bullying and exclusion

Bullying now runs through group chats — pile-ons, forwarded screenshots of private messages, and pointed exclusion that follow a child home on the phone in their pocket.

Relevant to:WhatsAppSnapchatInstagramDiscordCyberbullying

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