Coroner offers Molly Russell’s family his ‘deepest sympathies’

A coroner today (tues) offered his ‘deepest sympathies’ to the family of schoolgirl Molly Russell, who killed herself after viewing content on suicide, depression and self-harm. Molly, from Harrow, northwest London, viewed a large amount of material about anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide in the months before she died in November 2017. Her family seek to investigate how algorithms used by social media firms to keep people hooked may have contributed to her death. They also want the inquest to…