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Blue Whale Game Banned in Kenya

The Kenya Film Classification Board has written to Google and Facebook to block the Blue Whale online game, which is said to feature a series of traumatising tasks that culminate in suicide. The game has been linked in the media to teen suicides in Russia - but fact -checking website Snopes says the claims are unproven.

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Kenya Film Classification Board chief executive Ezekiel Mutua.

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  • 9 May 2017
    Kenya Bans Blue Whale Game
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