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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Chiara Giordano

‘Social media helped kill my daughter’: Molly Russell’s father says more safety measures needed online

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The father of a 14 year-old girl has told an inquest he believes social media helped kill his daughter and that more safety measures are needed online.

Molly Russell’s father Ian said restrictions, like speed limits on roads, are accepted in the offline world but “those measures are not put in place in sufficient quantity in the digital world”.

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