Latest News

A quick-reference directory of popular social media, messaging, gaming, livestreaming, and AI apps used by youth and adults. Designed to help parents, caregivers, educators, advocates, and community members recognize the platforms they may encounter and become more familiar with today’s digital landscape.

The platforms young people use are constantly evolving—and understanding how they work matters. This reference guide breaks down popular social, messaging, gaming, livestreaming, and AI platforms, including key features, age requirements, safety risks, parental controls, and response considerations. Designed as an easy-to-use awareness resource for parents, caregivers, educators, advocates, and others working to help keep young people safer online. First Release • Updated Qua

Technology can create information in places we may never think to ask about. The Evidence Nobody Thought to Ask For is a Her Bridge Collective reference guide examining overlooked digital information that may exist around victimization—including AI conversations, account alerts, synced devices, peer-shared content, transactions, location activity, and other technology-generated records. The guide focuses on recognition, not forensic collection, and encourages broader question

Tracker Awareness is a practical digital safety reference guide designed to help individuals, families, advocates, educators, and professionals recognize and better understand common location-tracking devices. The guide covers Apple AirTag, Samsung SmartTag2, Tile, Pebblebee, Chipolo, and Jiobit, with current information on device identification, how tracking networks work, unwanted-tracker alerts, detection limitations, accessories and altered appearances, and device-specifi

New research from Thorn and Common Sense Media is giving us a closer look at how AI is becoming part of children’s everyday lives—and how it may intersect with online sexual harm, disclosure, and help-seeking. This edition of the Digitally Dangerous™ Newsletter highlights key findings, emerging concerns, and questions parents and professionals may want to consider as children navigate an increasingly AI-connected world.

Group grooming can look different from the one-on-one grooming many of us recognize. This issue of The Digital Brief™ explores how comments, emojis, coded communication, group dynamics, platform migration, and seemingly ordinary online interactions can become part of a larger pattern. It also examines documented FBI, NCMEC, and Thorn findings and offers questions for parents and professionals to consider—without treating every emoji, comment, or unfamiliar account as evidence