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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Ellie Ng

Molly Russell would be fighting to make online world safe, bereaved father says

Ian Russell was among parents urging the Government to take action to tackle social media harms (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Archive)

The father of Molly Russell has said his daughter would be fighting to make the online world safe if she was still alive, as he and other bereaved parents urged the Government to take urgent action to tackle social media harms.

Campaigners, whose children’s deaths were linked to social media, were told during a meeting with the Prime Minister on Tuesday that measures to protect youngsters should be announced in “weeks, not months”.

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