It was installed at 2:34 pm and then uninstalled at 2:41pm so I’m sure that my son was just checking it out, likely based on the chatter of school friends or simple curiosity. I got the Boomerang Parental Control daily report for my 14 year old’s usage yesterday and under ‘Recently Installed Apps’, I saw an App that concerned me: Fake Chat (Direct Message) ! I looked up what Fake Chat does and it creates a real-looking chat thread between any two people that you want, for example Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. It turns out that it’s very easy to use apps to create fake news. As parents, we hear about fake news all the time but have you ever thought about how easy it is in this digital age to manufacture fake news? I just received some education on this and yes, there’s an App for that.
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