pic.twitter.com/AEf6F0gBbtLater, in an apparent damage limitation exercise following a backlash on social media, the website’s language was updated to describe the pamphlet as “a Federal Trade Commission booklet, promoted by First Lady Melania Trump”. A White House official confirmed that the wording on the website had been changed, offering an explanation that “there seemed to be confusion so we wanted to be clear”. The 2018 document, part of Melania’s initiative unveiled in the White House rose garden on Monday, includes a preface accompanied by her photo and signature. But the following pages, full of advice for parents of “tweets” and “teens”, suggest her input was vanishingly small. • This article was amended on 8 May 2018 to swap the order in which the FTC handbook headings on sexting appeared.

Source: The Guardian May 07, 2018 22:46 UTC