The UK plans to criminalize self-harm content in the updated Online Safety Bill, in line with suicide content, after the death of teenager Molly Russell in 2017
The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
Holding platforms accountable for algorithms promoting self-harm is hard because research linking mental health and social media doesn't establish causation
A British court ruled that teenager Molly Russell died in part because of online content—but holding platforms accountable is complicated.
In a closely watched case, a UK coroner rules 14-year-old Molly Russell died by suicide after consuming extensive self-harm material on Instagram and Pinterest
Inquest told 14-year-old took her own life while suffering from depression and had interacted with harmful social media content
Instagram bans drawings and memes related to self-harm or suicide
Instagram has pledged to remove images, drawings and even cartoons showing methods of self-harm or suicide. — The move is its latest response to the public outcry over the death of British teenager ...
Social media companies should gain more in-house knowledge about mental health to realize the impact of recommendation algorithms on users with mental illness
IT'S TROUBLING ENOUGH that British teenager Molly Russell sought out images of suicide and self-harm online before she took her own life in 2017. Tweets: @jvitak , @marylgray , @johndcook , and @wired...