Research & Evidence
Molly Rose Foundation generates high-quality evidence and insights to inform and empower the online safety sector. In conjunction with our Lived Experience networks, we underpin our policy and legislative objectives to create powerful calls for change.
Our research programme is focused on identifying and tracking online harm, understanding links to mental health and wellbeing in young people, highlighting products that have potential to cause online harm and identifying and understanding solutions with the aim to push for the systemic conditions and changes needed to deliver them.
Research briefing with the results of a large-scale polling on young people in Australia as to the efficacy of the social media ban (April 2026)
A 2026 research briefing showing strong support from the UK public for new legislation to protect young people on social media.
A new report by Resolver Trust and Safety in partnership with Molly Rose Foundation finds so-called Com networks are recruiting young victims and coercing them to become perpetrators of violence and abuse (Jan 26)
immediately before the Online Safety Act came into effect (Oct 25)
Collaborative report revealing how Instagram is failing to protect minors (Sept 25)
Suicide, self-harm and intense depression content on TikTok and Instagram, and how their algorithms recommend it to teens (Aug 25)
of 13-17 year olds had seen high risk suicide, self-harm, depression or eating disorder content on social media in the last week (Oct 25 report)
girls had seen high risk suicide, self-harm, depression or eating disorder content in the last week, including one in five who had seen content showing self-harm (Oct 25 report)
of children with SEND had seen high risk suicide, self-harm, depression or eating disorder content in the last week, (Oct 25 report)
of Meta’s safety tools are either substantially ineffective or no longer existed. Just 1 in 5 worked as described (Sept 25 report, Teen Accounts, Broken Promises)
of recommended harmful posts on TikTok’s ‘for you page’ contained references to suicide and self-harm ideation (Aug 25, Pervasive by Design report)
Instagram reels and 96% TikTok videos were found to be harmful (Aug 25, Pervasive by Design report)
Molly Rose Foundation warns it would be a ‘high stakes gamble’ for the UK to implement an Australia-style ban at this stage.
Molly Rose Foundation research briefing showed strong support from the UK public for new legislation to protect young people on social media.
Report by global trust and safety intelligence group Resolver, in partnership with Molly Rose Foundation, exposes disturbing scale and nature of “Com networks”
We are dedicated to ensuring that children and young people are protected from online harm to bring an end to preventable deaths by suicide where technology plays a role.