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Gabriela Galvin

TikTok and Instagram accused of pushing suicide-related content to teens

Social media platforms continue to push teenagers toward content about suicide, self-harm, and “intense depression,” a new report has found.

The UK-based Molly Rose Foundation created TikTok and Instagram accounts posing as a 15-year-old girl who had previously engaged with this kind of content. Nearly every video that came up on the two platforms were related to suicide, depression, or self-harm, the group said.

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