Molly Russell: how a teenager’s death put social media on trial
Last month a coroner said Molly ‘died from an act of self-harm whilst suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content’
After 14-year-old Molly Russell died in November 2017, her father, Ian, looked for answers. He scrolled through some of the social media posts she had been exposed to in the final months of her life.
“I can remember one that said ‘who would love a suicidal girl?’ and it had a little cartoon drawing of a sad-looking girl next to it,” he tells Michael Safi.
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