{"id":208669,"date":"2026-05-04T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/children-in-trouble-with-a-i-highlights-dangers-of-private-messaging-apps\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:55:19","slug":"children-in-trouble-with-a-i-highlights-dangers-of-private-messaging-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/children-in-trouble-with-a-i-highlights-dangers-of-private-messaging-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Children in trouble with A.I. highlights dangers of private messaging apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/children-phone-apps-messaging-dangers-artificial-intelligence\/71204733\">Children in trouble with A.I. highlights dangers of private messaging apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/children-phone-apps-messaging-dangers-artificial-intelligence\/71204733\">https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/children-phone-apps-messaging-dangers-artificial-intelligence\/71204733<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 17:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wlwt.com\">www.wlwt.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Social Media and Apps Usage<\/strong>: Kids are increasingly using platforms like Snapchat, Roblox, Session, and Discord to communicate with friends and sometimes strangers. If misused, these platforms can pose severe dangers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Misuse and Legal Consequences<\/strong>: Prosecutor Lynn Deddens and Detective Derek Stevens highlight a rising trend of kids misusing these platforms, including creating artificial intelligence (AI) pornography and catfishing others, leading to legal consequences that can be life-altering. For instance, a 17-year-old had to register as a sex offender.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anonymity and Accessibility<\/strong>: Apps like Session allow easy setup of anonymous accounts without requiring a name, email, or age verification, making it hard to track abusers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detection Difficulty<\/strong>: Unlike traditional messaging tied to a phone number or email, many apps are nearly impossible to trace due to their anonymous nature, complicating law enforcement efforts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parental Guidance<\/strong>: Experts stress the importance of parents educating and discussing these risks with kids rather than relying on monitoring apps that kids can easily bypass using other devices or browsers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children in trouble with A.I. highlights dangers of private messaging apps https:\/\/www.wlwt.com\/article\/children-phone-apps-messaging-dangers-artificial-intelligence\/71204733 Publish Date: 2026-05-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/htv-prod\/images\/36495371-062a-4071-a0ff-328852e8ed3a.png?crop=0.923xw:1.00xh;0,0&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-208669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208671,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208669\/revisions\/208671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}