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This week marks seven years since my 14-year-old daughter Molly died after being exposed to suicide and self-harm material online.
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.