pushed to do what she did. it was reported that in the last six months of her life, molly was using instagram more than 120 times a day. you later learned she had viewed a lot of distressing materials. you just mentioned about depression and suicide. you kind of alluded to this, but do you have any idea how much your daughter was using instagram so much and, more importantly, how toxic it was? i know the molly i saw and liked, i had to limit how much as well as the legal team which is working with us on molly s inquest which is still open, and for that matter, the police that were involved with the case as well. it s harmful, distressing material, sometimes quite shocking, but sometimes subtly shocking with benign messages. but if you are fed these messages by algorithm hundreds of times a day, you have to take
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death by suicide. how big of a role do you believe instagram and social media played in molly s case? molly was an extraordinary daughter, and even though four years has passed, i still think of her every day and a tear comes to my eye quite often. there was no sign of any mental ill health in molly before her death, and we couldn t work out what possibly triggered it. then we looked into what she had been looking into online and saw the harmful content she had been exposed to on various platforms, including instagram. it was almost as if a missing piece of a jigsaw was put in place because it was so horrifying and shocking seeing that content. it must have been very hard for molly. and the platform s algorithms fed her more and more harmful content every day. having had a glimpse of what molly was exposed torq, i think now understand why she was
b blistering assessment about the pitfalls of social media, especially for young girls. it states that not only is instagram dangerous for teenagers, it s substantially more dangerous than other social media platforms, because tiktok is about performance and doing things your friends, snapchat is largely about augmented reality in faces, but instagram is about body and social comparison. it seems clear social media has the potential to be a dangerous cliff for teens who are struggling emotionally, like 14-year-old molly russell. four years ago she kissed her parents good night, logged onto instagram and ended up taking her own life. her father blames social media for his daughter s death. it s been four years, but i can t imagine the depth of the pain that never goes away. there s so many things that contribute to a person choosing