The Blue Whale Challenge is a social media challenge that encourages participants to engage in self-harm and dangerous activities each day, leading up to the final day when they are encouraged to ...

BLUE Whale is a horrifyingly dangerous suicide challenge which appears to goad vulnerable teens into killing themselves. The ‘challenge’ has been linked to at least 130 teen deaths acro… ...

The Blue Whale game is known by other names as well and is not dissimilar from an equally dangerous trend in several other countries, including the U.S. meme known as Momo.

The Blue Whale Challenge was called one of the “scariest and the most mysterious” YouTube challenges your kids will try ... The trend was reported to have begun in Russia but that has been ...

Catherine Ferris is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting for the U.S. Trends Team. She has covered viral trends and posts extensively. Catherine joined Newsweek in 2021 ...