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Toronto Sun: TDSB warns parents about Momo Challenge$1:
The Toronto District school Board has sent a warning to parents about a dangerous online game called the Momo Challenge where youth are encouraged to perform dangerous tasks or violent attacks.
Even though the challenge is a potential hoax, the board says it is being proactive...
'Momo challenge' rumours prompt Sask. RCMP, school division to send out tips on online safetyEdinburgh Herald: dEdinburgh mum warns parents over Momo 'suicide gameOh oh, world's greatest authority on kids because you say you have some teenagers. You've been topped. Scottish lady says she has an 8 year old who has been freaked by the Momo Meme.
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The game is illustrated by a terrifying bug-eyed female face and shares violent images and threatens its users.
It is thought that instances of the game have been reported in Colombia, Australia, Mexico and England and has been linked to at least two deaths.
Lyn Dixon's eight-year-old son was left terrified last year when he came into contact with the game. Despite applying strict parental controls onto his use of the internet, images of the Momo face popped up on YouTube when he was watching harmless prank videos.
Lyn said: "It started with him not wanting to go upstairs on his own because it was dark up there. He was terrified and wouldn't sleep in his own bed and then we got to the bottom of it and we explained it wasn't real."
Lynn and her husband informed their son's school who gave an internet safety to talk to its pupils. It was not the first time teachers had heard of the sinister game.
But her son was scared for months after being exposed to the challenge and Lynn was worried when he told her he had seen it again recently...
CTV News: Separating fact from fiction on the Momo Challenge$1:
If there has been no confirmation Momo is real, does that mean there’s nothing to worry about?
Not necessarily. Just because something hasn’t been officially verified doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened.
It’s possible that children have been urged to hurt themselves or others by someone identifying themselves as Momo. It’s also possible that the entire craze has been an overblown reaction to one relatively harmless encounter, or that it was entirely fabricated from the beginning.
Making it particularly difficult to tell how much of the story is real is that many of the supposed Momo encounters begin with messages delivered in online games, where users are usually not recording their activities.
Additionally, most direct communication with Momo is said to happen via platforms such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, where conversations are likewise typically private by default.
This makes it hard for users to capture proof of any meetings with Momo – and hard for fact-checkers to definitively prove that such meetings are not happening.
Orillia Matters: Online Momo Challenge not a hoax, say police$1:
South Simcoe police are keeping an eye out for reports of the online Momo Challenge that encourages youth to do dangerous tasks, including self-harm, after a local school board had an incident related to the cyberbullying phenomenon.
Despite widespread claims the Momo Challenge is a hoax, including by BBC News, South Simcoe police are taking it seriously.
“We’re not treating it as a hoax,” said South Simcoe Police Staff Sgt. Steve Wilson.
He said there have been no reports of the Momo Challenge in South Simcoe, but the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board “had an incident somewhere in Simcoe County.”
“It wasn’t an incident investigated by South Simcoe (police),” he added. “We do support the school board. It is so important for parents to know what their kids are doing online.”
In light of a recent South Simcoe police and RCMP investigation involving a 12 year old girl and social media sites that led to child pornography charges last week for a 23-year-old Innisfil man, Wilson said using caution online is even more important nowadays.
“It’s so easy to become a victim now. You don’t know who’s at the other end,” he said. “People don’t talk face to face. It’s easier to hide behind their computer. I can assure you not everyone in the cyber world has the best intentions.”
South Simcoe police issued a press release Friday morning alerting the public to the Momo Challenge and urging parents to warn their children “not to engage” with the game that targets children and youth.
Huffington Post: The Momo Challenge Is A Hoax, But It's Still Putting Kids At Risk$1:
It's a disturbing image with an even more disturbing message so it's little wonder that the "Momo challenge" has parents everywhere on edge. But while the challenge that supposedly instructs children to harm themselves is actually a recurring viral hoax, the publicity surrounding it (and copycats) can still put kids in danger.
Regina CTV News: Yorkton mother concerned after Momo Challenge incident$1:
A Yorkton mother is voicing concerns about the Momo Challenge after she says her son tried to harm himself.
Melissa Mitchell is a mother of two and first heard about the Momo Challenge four days ago.
The images matched the description of a character her son Jackson had seen online three months earlier. He called the image "the chicken lady."
It wasn’t just the image that shocked Mitchell, she was also appalled by the message behind it.
“He would say that the chicken lady was going to come kill him at 3 a.m. and that the chicken lady was going to come and kill us,” she said.
Mitchell assumed it was just night terrors until she found marks on his neck as if he was trying to hurt himself. She says it was influenced by the Momo image.
“No matter where he saw it or how he saw it, it’s very real,” she said...
Dr. Jane Hubbard on VOCM: ‘Momo Challenge’ A Good Opportunity To Talk To Your Kids About Online Safety, Says Child Psychologist$1:
The so-called Momo Challenge is causing serious fear among parents and children alike.
While there is no actual proof that the challenge exists, it has generated great concern and reminders to parents about monitoring the internet habits of kids.
It stems from images of a frightening bird-like human figure created by a Japanese artist. The urban legend suggests that the image is being spliced into innocent children’s videos and challenging kids to do a variety of tasks that escalate to self-harm and suicide.
While no evidence exists that that is the case, it has heightened awareness about what children are consuming on the internet and social media.
Psychologist Dr. Janine Hubbard told Paddy Daly on the VOCM Morning Show kids have heard about it and are “freaked out”
She says it’s important as adults not to dismiss their fears because children have difficulty separating fact from fiction.
Hubbard says it’s also an opportunity to discuss with children how they interact with others online. She says it’s a good idea to ask children if they received a message from Momo asking for their phone number, what would they do?...
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