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Teen girls bullied over nude pics

Pictures of 14-year-old Hamar girls posing naked or topless have begun circulating on the internet after the school-goers sent the compromising images to local boys, sparking concern among residents in the eastern Norwegian town.

Fifteen-year-old Anna Gjerdingen Jensen, head of the student council at the Ajer secondary school, raised the alarm after a number of girls began being bullied and vilified by their peers, newspaper Hamar Arbeiderblad reports.

“Here and now, I could get pictures of more than ten girls just by sending a few text messages,” Jensen told the newspaper.

Already, many of the girls are being subjected to derogatory comments after the pictures began appearing on social media websites.

“What I’m most concerned about is these girls’ futures. It can’t be especially good to apply for a job and be Googled by an employer who finds naked pictures on the web,” said Jensen.

As many of 30 girls in the town of some 30,000 inhabitants are believed to have sent pictures of themselves in various stages of undress to unscrupulous boys who have forwarded the pictures to friends or uploaded them to the internet after receiving them on their phones.

The origins of the trend are uncertain, and so far it appears to be restricted to girls in the ninth grade, who are generally 14 years old.  

Police and healthcare workers have struggled to get to grips with the problem since Jensen alerted school authorities just before Christmas.

Parents of pupils at the Ajer school are to be called to an information meeting later in February. The meeting will also be attended by  law enforcement and healthcare officials. Similar gatherings are set to take place at other schools in the town.

"We're going to run a programme at all lower secondary schools in the area, with a focus on netiquette and targeting concerns over girls sending pictures of themselves," police spokesman Knut Erik Amundsen told newspaper Dagbladet.

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Facebook deletes virus conspiracy accounts in Germany

Facebook says it has deleted the accounts, pages and groups linked to virus conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers in Germany who are vocal opponents of government restrictions to control the coronavirus pandemic.

Facebook deletes virus conspiracy accounts in Germany
An anti-vaccination and anti-Covid demo in Berlin on August 28th. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Christophe Gateau

With just 10 days to go before Germany’s parliamentary elections – where the handling of the pandemic by Angela Merkel’s goverment will come under scrutiny – Facebook said it had “removed a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts” linked to the so-called “Querdenker” or Lateral Thinker movement.

The pages posted “harmful health misinformation, hate speech and incitement to violence”, the social media giant said in a statement.

It said that the people behind the pages “used authentic and duplicate accounts to post and amplify violating content, primarily focused on promoting the conspiracy that the German government’s Covid-19 restrictions are part of a larger plan to strip citizens of their freedoms and basic rights.”

The “Querdenker” movement, which is already under surveillance by Germany’s intelligence services, likes to portray itself as the mouthpiece of opponents
of the government’s coronavirus restrictions, organising rallies around the country that have drawn crowds of several thousands.

READ ALSO: Germany’s spy agency to monitor ‘Querdenker’ Covid sceptics

It loosely groups together activists from both the far-right and far-left of the political spectrum, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. And some of their rallies have descended into violence.

Social media platforms regularly face accusations that they help propagate misinformation and disinformation, particularly with regard to the pandemic and vaccines.

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