The Latest Breaking News from Molly Russell

Ian Russell says inquest into daughter’s death is ‘unique’ opportunity to make online platforms safer

Ian Russell criticised the ‘business as usual’ approach from tech platforms such as Meta.

Exclusive: Study shows social media a ‘significant risk’ to young people’s view of themselves and can provoke mental health distress

Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell vows to target algorithms that bombard children with harmful content if party wins power

One year into the brand's anti-social media policy, she says not enough has changed.

Don’t say ‘just don’t go online’ because adults wouldn’t do that if something happened in the real world. If you got followed home, it’s not like [they would say]: “Hey, stop leaving the house.” Help the person understand that it wasn’t their fault and try to help them through it…

Relatives of Molly Russell and other children support changes proposed as part of online safety bill

The teenager’s mother persuaded Mrs Justice Morgan to delay a ruling on whether life-support treatment should end until after Christmas.

The Government is overhauling its proposed Online Safety Bill to force tech giants to improve protections for children but has faced criticism for axing a duty on firms to remove legal but harmful content