Beresford Hodge/PA Images via Getty Imagesįrom the moment she first engaged with posts about depression and self-harm, the poor girl became victim to a relentless assault on her vulnerable senses that eventually helped drive her to kill herself. Her distraught father, Ian Russell, said that Molly, who was once “full of love and bubbling with excitement for what should have lay ahead in her life,” had been “pushed into a rabbit hole” of depressive content and “the bleakest of worlds.” Elizabeth Lagone arrives at Barnet Coroner’s Court to give evidence in the inquest into the death of Molly Russell. She was constantly directed, via emails and messages to her feeds, to dark, disturbing content that actively fueled her despair.
Sadly, we got the grim, tragic, horrifying answer in a London coroner’s courtroom last week in a case that should shock every parent to the very core of their being and make every tech firm executive stare deep into their soul.Īs The Post reported, the coroner directly blamed social media for the suicide of a depressed 14-year-old British girl, Molly Russell, who was bombarded with messages and images promoting self-harm from Instagram and Pinterest’s artificial intelligence algorithms. What actual support would tech giants give me then to help dissuade me from such thoughts? More pertinently, what if I were a suicidal teenager without a high profile to ensure people saw my posts or engagement? Molly Russell, 14 killed herself after being bombarded with images depicting self-harm and suicide on social media. My tweet was a joke, albeit one delivered with very real raw emotion at the time. Of course, I never had any intention of taking my own life. Please know that there are people out there who care about you, and that you are not alone. If you are having thoughts of self-harm, suicide, or depression, we encourage you to please reach out to someone and request help. This in turn prompts Twitter to send me the message of support, which continues: “In difficult times and when you need someone to talk to, it may help to speak to professionals who can assist you in coping with your current circumstances. My old tweet regularly pops up to go viral again when I am involved in a controversial furor, and those who object to my views, often boasting the hashtag #BeKind in their social media biographies, wish to remind me of what thought process I should be considering.
In fact, both those numbers have at times been significantly higher, suggesting some people have either regretted denoting their enthusiasm for my apparent desire to end my life, or been urged to do so by a concerned Twitter. Since then, my plaintive cry has been retweeted 130,000 times, and been “liked” 111,000 times. The offending comment that triggered this warning was in fact from 2012 when my then-favorite English soccer player Robin van Persie defected from my team Arsenal to our bitter rivals Manchester United, and I responded to this crushing development by tweeting: “I want to die.” I got an email from Twitter last week that said: “We’re writing to you because a concerned individual has recently alerted us to potentially suicidal or self-harming comments posted on your account.” If the American Dream is now Kim Kardashian flashing her big ass in front of the flag, then it’s become a Nightmare Queen Elizabeth II's death and loss of her 'aura of invincibility' an 'enormous blow' to UK's psyche Harry, if you really want to honor your dad, nix your salacious tell-all and rein in your royals-trashing wife Ron DeSantis is Trump's Dem-slaying Frankenstein monster and they're heading for a deadly showdown
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