Social media bosses did not want to come to schoolgirl’s inquest because of ‘Covid risk’

Executives from Meta and Pinterest have been ordered to fly in from the US to attend the inquest into the death of Molly Russell, a schoolgirl who killed herself after viewing content on suicide, depression and self-harm. Jud Hoffman, Head of Community Operations at Pinterest, and Liz Lagone, Head of Health and Wellbeing Policy wanted to give evidence remotely about the death of the 14-year-old when the full hearing begins later this month. But coroner Andrew Walker ruled that they…