Instagram blamed in teen’s suicide

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Coroner’s finding in a girl’s suicide holds social media giants to account.

Other countries may be emboldened to follow a ground-breaking UK judgment which found the social media giant was complicit in the suicide of a 14-year-old girlMolly Russell is a teenager at the centre of a ground-breaking legal judgment last month in the UK.

It is awful, especially for parents, that a suicide culture has found a home on the internet and social media. Instagram “helped kill my daughter”, Russell told the BBC in 2019. His comment made the front pages of the UK tabloids. But as whistle-blower Frances Haugen pointed out last year: “Facebook, over and over again, has shown it chooses profit over safety.” Facebook is “subsidising, it is paying for its profits with our safety”, she said.

Haugen leaked the Facebook Files to The Wall Street Journal, which wrote: “Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.

 

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