Blue Whale Online Challenge

Facebook working with suicide prevention partners to recognise groups encouraging self-harm or suicide

Facebook is working to collect phrases, hashtags and group names associated with online challenges encouraging self-harm or suicide.

Blue Whale Challenge: Goa police issues advisory to install parental control software

Goa Police to issue a formal advisory to parents on safeguarding their wards from playing the Blue Whale online game

What the Blue Whale Challenge's popularity tells us about vulnerable teenagers

The Blue Whale challenge has been in the news for allegedly driving teens to self-destructive behaviour. But the game isn't the problem — the real issue is why a teenager feeling so lost and lonely that self-harm and suicide appear more appealing than wellness and life