two examples and indicate that is what happens more broadly. reporter: pledging to do more to protect young users, it is too late for ian russell who lost his daughter molly to suicide in 2017. there was no sign of any mental ill health in molly before her death and we couldn t work out what could have possibly triggered it. reporter: russell said he looked at his daughter s social media and was disturbed by what he saw on platforms including instagram. we had no glimpse of what mollie was exposed to. i think i understand now why she was pushed to do what she did. reporter: adding to the pressures on the social media giant, a bipartisan group of state attorneys jen launched an investigation into the potential harm for children and teens, meta claiming the allegations are false. donie o sullivan, cnn, new york. top u.s. airline executives will be on capitol hill next wednesday to explain mass flight cancellations this fall. carriers scrapped thousands of flights despite rece
respectfully, i don t think you can take one or two examples and indicate that s indicative of what happens on the platform more broadly. reporter: pledging the company will do more to protect young users but it s too little, too late for people like ian russell who lost his daughter molly to suicide in 2017. there was no sign of any mental ill health in molly before her death. we couldn t work out what could possibly trigger it. reporter: russell says he looked at his daughter s social media and was disturbed by what he saw on platforms including instagram. having had a glimpse of what she was exposed to, i think i now understand why she was pushed to do what she did. reporter: adding to the pressures on the social media giant a bipartisan group of state attorneys general launched an investigation into the potential harms of instagram for children and teens. meta claiming the allegations are false. and that hearing just ending on capitol hill in the last few seconds. what
its growth rather than implement safeguards on its platforms. she also said,. well, the company hit back and said it cares deeply about issues like safety, well being and mental health. she said the company s apps how children s mental health and since arriving in the uk she is meant the campaign are universal his 14 year old daughter molly took her own life after viewing disturbing content on instagram which is owned by facebook. angus crawford has this. she s the former facebook insider who revealed its most closely guarded secrets. 14 year old molly russell. he s the father who lost his daughter to suicide now campaigning to protect other children online. nice to meet you. today they met for the first time. so what do you think
she worked at facebook for two years, and met the campaigner ian russell, whose 14 year old daughter molly took her own life after viewing disturbing content on instagram, which is owned by facebook. angus crawford reports. she is the former facebook insider who revealed its most closely guarded secrets. 14 year old molly russell. he is the father who lost his daughter to suicide. now campaigning to protect other children online. nice to meet you. so lovely to meet you. here, meeting for the first time. so what do you think the impact of molly s story was on instagram as a platform and how it approaches safety? facebook is full of kind, conscientious, well meaning people. the real question is around can we as a public change the incentives such that it makes more sense for facebook to invest more money in safety on instagram? and so i am sure that molly s
the cladding crisis after grenfell. and the facebook whistleblower, frances haugen, meets ian russell, who s14 year old daughter molly took her own life after viewing disturbing content online. good afternoon. the chancellor, rushi sunak, says he ll deliver a budget on wednesday that invests in infrastructure, innovation and skills, to grow the british economy as it recovers from the covid pandemic. he told the bbc there d be a boost for the nhs and schools, as well as money for services for children, policing and fighting crime. he acknowledged the rising cost of living, but says this is due to global factors, and he doesn t have a magic wand to make them disappear. here s our political correspondent, nick eardley.