Photo: Netsafe
Earlier this year Netflix's TV show Adolescence sent a shiver down the spine of parents around the globe.
It centred on a family coming to terms with the online radicalisation of their son - and the crime he was accused of committing.
A new interactive platform has now been developed for Kiwi kids to help them recognise mis and disinformation, identity-based harm and online extremism.
Stuff that's at the "top of the rabbit hole", rather than the Adolescence scale of things.
It's called Headspace Invaders and has been developed by Netsafe and Youthline, funded out of the Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism Fund and - crucially - been co-designed by those it's aiming to help, kids aged 12 to 16.
Netsafe's Chief Customer Officer Leanne Ross has been heavily involved in this project and talks about how it works and why it's the first youth-facing tool to combat this kind of material.
