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The popular streaming service Twitch, owned by Amazon, offers a rich source of information about the daily lives of kids to child predators, according to new research. A researcher who manually browsed Twitch from October 2020 to August 2022 found hundreds of seemingly predatory accounts run by adults that mostly followed children or young teenagers. Each account followed more than 1,000 children, and the study found 279,016 children who were potentially targeted by predatory accounts.

In March, the nonprofit transparency group DDoSecrets published a trove of more than 160,000 records, or 700 GB of data, from the Bashkortostan regional office of Russia’s internet regulator, Roskomnadzor. This week,published an in-depth analysis of the documents, revealing rare insights into how the agency, which wields significant digital monitoring and censorship powers, goes about exerting control.

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