‘The social media content that killed Molly is still there’

Molly Russell’s grieving father told her inquest: ‘I believe that social media helped kill my daughter and I believe that sort of content is still there.’ The 14-year-old schoolgirl, from Harrow, northwest London, researched self-harming and suicide online before taking her own life in November 2017. Executives from Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, and Pinterest, are due to give evidence in person at Molly’s inquest at North London Coroner’s Court. The inquest will examine algorithms used by…