Molly Russell: Instagram posts seen by teen 'were safe', Meta says
Molly Russell's father previously told the court she had entered the "bleakest of worlds" online before her death
Instagram posts about suicide and depression viewed by a 14-year-old girl before she took her own life "were safe", a court has heard. Molly Russell, from Harrow, engaged with thousands of such posts in the months before her death in 2017.Elizabeth Lagone, an executive at Meta, which owns Instagram, said she believed it was "safe for people to be able to express themselves" online.The inquest at North London Coroner's Court was told out of the 16,300 posts Molly saved, shared or liked on Instagram in the six-months before her death, 2,100 were depression, self-harm or suicide-related.
Instagram's guidelines at the time said users were allowed to post content about suicide and self-harm to "facilitate the coming together to support" other users but not if it "encouraged or promoted" this. Ms Lagone told the court she thought the content Molly saw was "nuanced and complicated", adding that it was important to give people a voice if they were experiencing suicidal thoughts.
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