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On average, a UK family loses a young person to suicide where technology plays a role every single week.

Hill formerly led the NSPCC’s online safety media work and has worked tirelessly with Molly’s father and other bereaved families, as well as young people impacted by online harm, to ensure their voices are heard by decision-makers and the public.

It comes as the Foundation releases large-scale polling that shows overwhelming public and parental support for a new Online Safety Act: 84 per cent of parents, and 80 per cent of adults, back a new Act to strengthen the regime.

MRF Chair of Trustees Ian Russell has cautiously welcomed the move, though warned the platform must provide evidence its new measures are workin

It would make Australia one of the first countries in the world to introduce an age restriction on social media.

Analysis of over 12 million content moderation decisions by six major tech platforms shows that over 95% of suicide and self-harm posts are being detected by just two major platforms, Pinterest and TikTok.

Burrows has 15 years experience leading high impact public policy and public affairs programmes, with deep expertise in online harms, technology, regulated markets and consumer policy.

The news means tech firms could be forced to hand over social media profile data, and was welcomed by Ian Russell, Chair of the Molly Rose Foundation.

MRF hopes that WeAre8’s algorithm-free model will, alongside robust moderation and safety protocols, pioneer a new type of social media where children are protected from harmful content rather than being funnelled towards it.

In an open letter to the UK’s main political parties, bereaved parents and child abuse survivors call on whoever enters Downing Street next month to commit to a strengthened Online Safety Act.

The Labour party has pledged to give coroners the powers they need to access information held by tech companies after a child’s death.

The Molly Rose Foundation is making a major intervention ahead of the General Election.