The Prince said online safety for children “needs to be a prerequisite” after a coroner ruled social media contributed to the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell.
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On Thursday evening William, who met Molly’s father Ian Russell in November 2019, said on Twitter “no parent should ever have to endure” what the family went through. Concluding it would not be “safe” to rule Molly’s cause of death as suicide, Mr Walker said the teenager “died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression and the negative effects of online content”.
“The platform operated in such a way using algorithms as to result, in some circumstances, of binge periods of images, video clips and text – some of which were selected and provided without Molly requesting them.Ian Russell, the father of Molly Russell, speaks to the media outside Barnet Coroner’s Court, north London, after the inquest into the death of his daughter
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