Report revealing children’s exposure to suicide, self-harm, depression and eating disorder content online

It is now almost 8 years since Molly Russell died after being algorithmically bombarded with harmful suicide, self-harm and depression content. This report reveals that, immediately before the Online Safety Act took effect, far too little had changed. Using a nuanced and in-depth approach to understand the true scale of children’s exposure to different types of potentially harmful content, the findings suggest that young people continued to be put at risk at a deeply worrying scale (Oct 25)