The father of a teenage girl who took her own life has said that he has ‘no doubt that social media killed my daughter’, who was exposed to shocking suicide content online before her death.
In 2017 Molly Russel, a 14 year old from north London, tragically killed herself after viewing ‘bleak depressive material, graphic self harm content and suicide encouraging memes’ according to a report by her father heard in a coroner’s court, the Mirror reports.
A barrister at the court said that some of the content in question is ‘not something that can be reviewed in a long sitting’ due to its extremely disturbing nature. The case has raised awareness of the responsibility of big tech companies to monitor content that could be seen by vulnerable young people, and the algorithms that could continue to promote such material to users like Molly.
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