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Lancaster Daily Voice serves East Hempfield Twp, Elizabethtown, Ephrata, Lancaster, Manheim Twp, Manor Twp, Rapho Twp, Salisbury Twp & Warwick Twp Return to your home site Thursday, jan 20 32° Notification Push Notifications Notification Sound Notification permissions are disabled. Enable them in your device's settings. © 2022 Cantata Media 01/20/2022 1:29 p.m. Hempfield High School football coach, Thomas James Walker. Photo Credit: Twitter (Tommy Walker; @coach_walker9) A central Pennsylvania high school football coach has been charged with corrupting a minor after drunk texting a 16-year-girl, according to a release by police.Hempfield High School football coach, Thomas "Tommy" James Walker, 25, of Marietta sent messages about being "drunk and horny" to the girl on the social media platform SnapChat on Oct. 7 around 10:30 p.m., according to the police. The West Hempfield Township police department began investigating the matter after receiving a complaint from the girl and her parent "that a teacher from Hempfield sent her inappropriate messages," as stated in the release.Walker continued to message for a while and even asked about her appearance-- requesting her to send pictures-- before the victim ended the conversation, according to the release.Walker admitted to a Lancaster County Children and Youth Agency caseworker that…

Snapchat’s parent company, Snap Inc., on Tuesday announced new rules to limit the number of friends suggestions teens see when on the app, a move the company says is aimed at blocking drug dealers from adding minors as friends.The company is changing the “Quick Add” feature, which recommends new friends on the platform, to exclude teens from 13 to 17 unless they have “a certain number of friends in common with that person,” according to Snap’s announcement post.Snap also announced partnerships with anti-drug organizations to educate and provide resources for teens using its app. Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and the Truth Initiative will provide content for the app, alongside anti-drug nonprofit Song for Charlie, which already works with Snapchat.Snap’s global head of platform safety Jacqueline Beauchere said in response to the announcement, “Snapchat isn’t ideal for finding new people. It was designed for communicating with people whom you already know, your real-life friends.”Snap announced in October that it formed a partnership with S-3, a public health data firm, to look for drug dealers who might use Snapchat to sell drugs.Some critics have expressed skepticism that these measures will work.Samuel Chapman, whose son died after overdosing on pills he bought through Snapchat, said that the changes “are easy for…

Snapchat, the social media platform particularly popular with teens, has claimed that it is working to make it tougher for drug dealers to connect with children on its platform. The parent of one teen who overdosed on fentanyl-laced pills he bought from a dealer on Snapchat said in response: “What I find with Snap Inc. is that they publicize one Band-Aid after another, but at the end of the day, you can still go online and get drugs in seconds.” NBC News reports that Snapchat, the disappearing-message app popular among teenagers, has promised that it is taking steps to crack down on drug dealing on the app. Snap Inc. claims that the company is working hard to make it even more difficult for users to find the accounts of minors below the age of 17.  (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (Photo credit should read ERIC BARADAT/AFP/Getty Images) An investigation by NBC News published in October found that Snapchat was linked to the sale of drugs and particularly to fentanyl-laced pills killing teenagers and young adults in more than a dozen states. Snap claimed that it has automated systems in place to detect illegal drugs and has hired more employees to handle requests…

After Instagram added similar measures last year, Snapchat is now implementing new restrictions to limit adults from sending messages to users under the age of 18 in the app. As reported by Axios, Snapchat is changing its "Quick Add" friend suggestion process so that it’s not possible for people to add users aged under 18 “unless there are a certain number of friends in common between the two users”. That won’t stop such connection completely, but it does add another barrier in the process, which could reduce harm. The move is a logical and welcome step, which will help improve the security of youngsters in the app, but the impacts of such could be far more significant on Snap, which is predominantly used by younger people. Indeed, Snapchat reported last year that around 20% of its total user base was aged under 18, with the majority of its audience being in the 13-24 year-old age bracket. That means that interaction between these age groups is likely a significant element of the Snap experience, and restricting such could have big impacts on overall usage, even if it does offer greater protection for minors. Which is why this is a particularly significant…

Snapchat has faced increasing criticism in recent years as the opioid crisis plays out on social media, often with tragic results. In October, an NBC investigation reported the stories of a number of young people aged 13 to 23 who died after purchasing fentanyl-laced pills on Snapchat. Snapchat parent company Snap responded by committing to improve its ability to detect and remove this kind of content and ushering users who search for drug-related content to an educational harm reduction portal. Snapchat provided a glimpse at its progress against illicit drug sales on the platform, noting that 88 percent of the drug-related content it finds is now identified proactively by automated systems, with community reporting accounting for the other 12 percent. Snap says this number is up by a third since its October update, indicating that more of this content is being detected up front before being identified by users. “Since this fall, we have also seen another important indicator of progress: a decline in community-reported content related to drug sales,” Snap wrote in a blog post. “In September, over 23% of drug-related reports from Snapchatters contained content specifically related to sales, and as a result of proactive detection work, we…

A police spokesman confirmed on Sunday evening that a 14-year-old girl who had been kidnapped and raped in France had been found using Snapchat. The girl was kidnapped and raped in a building in Marseille’s 15th arrondisement, according to France Bleu. According to the French radio network, the girl, who was adopted, ran away on January 10 and was last seen by family that day when she was dropped off at Annonay College. She had previously fled to find her biological mother, who lived north of Lyon, according to the radio network.For several days, the gendarmerie of Ardèche and Rhône looked for the teenager. To avoid being apprehended by her kidnappers, the girl managed to contact her host family for assistance via Snapchat messages. 5 a.m. The young girl’s mother contacted the police on January 14 to report that her daughter had been kidnapped, raped, beaten, and possibly drugged during the night and that she had no idea where she was. The police then used Snаpchаt’s trаcking system to find the teen’s аccount, аnd used the аpp to trаck her down. Police used the system to determine the locаtion of the building in Mаrseille where she wаs being held before…

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The Sydney Opera House is lit up in rainbow colours. (SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty/ Toby Forage) After an 18-month fight, an LGBT+ activist who fled Jordan is finally “supported, seen and heard” in their new home in Australia. AlShaima Omama AlZubi, 25, who identifies as a non-binary lesbian, has been a “victim of rape, sexual assaults, torture, forced marriage, forced conversion therapy, forced hospitalisation, and forced veiling abuse that dates back to their childhood”, according to Amnesty. AlZubi, an LGBT+ and women’s rights defender, comes from a powerful family, with many members working for Jordan’s government, and whose “influence extends across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq”. They first fled to Turkey from Jordan in July 2020, and later made it to Lebanon, planning to travel onwards to Australia on a humanitarian visa. But in December, 2021, they were stripped of their passport and detained by Lebanese authorities for five days, who told them there was an Interpol Red Notice out of their arrest. During this time, Amnesty suspected that the Jordanian embassy in Lebanon was working on having them repatriated. Finally, after tireless work by NGOs and Australian diplomats, AlZubi was able to board a flight to Australia on 30…