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🗓️ 11 October 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:09.6 | Today, how the death of a teenage girl |
0:12.8 | might force some of the world's largest social media platforms to change. |
0:17.2 | A warning before we start, this episode includes references to suicide and self-harm. |
0:30.0 | In case those topics are extra sensitive for you right now, this is a heads up. |
0:34.8 | Molly was a mesmerizing child. She was the youngest of our three daughters. |
0:49.2 | And they're all gorgeous people, but I would say that as a father. |
0:52.8 | But Molly seemed to, from the earliest of ages, have a capacity for caring. |
0:58.8 | She loved to look after other people. |
1:01.0 | Molly Russell's dad. |
1:04.9 | She also was inquisitive. She loved to find out about things. |
1:10.8 | She'd look at the world through wonderfully inquisitive eyes that sparkled. |
1:16.4 | She would be quiet at the time, work out what she thought was going on around her, |
1:22.6 | assimilate what she had seen and heard, and process it in a way I don't think I've ever known anyone else ever do. |
1:30.6 | Even though I only knew her for 14 years. |
1:35.5 | In November 2017, while suffering from depression, Molly took her own life. |
1:42.1 | Reeling and looking for answers, her father Ian sat at the family computer, |
1:47.7 | going through Molly's email and her social media accounts. |
1:51.1 | This digital world into which his daughter had been sinking over the past few months. |
1:56.0 | And that was when he started seeing the posts that she'd been seeing. |
2:00.3 | It looked like they'd almost been pencil drawn posts. |
2:04.7 | I can remember one that said, who would love a suicidal girl. |
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