📢 Breck Foundation has joined children’s safety orgs, experts & bereaved families in signing a joint statement on the proposed under-16 social media ban, calling it the wrong solution and urging approaches that truly protect young people online. Letter by @mollyroseorg.bsky.social : buff.ly/10EnRa6
The Mirror partnered with @mollyroseorg.bsky.social for this series. The bereaved families and survivor are calling for a public inquiry. It takes two minutes to sign their petition, which you can do here:
mollyrosefoundation.beaconforms.com/form/90ddb8e4
Justice for families as UK man to be sentenced for online suicide forum deaths
A man who sold a lethal chemical on a pro-suicide forum has admitted aiding suicide, prompting renewed calls for Ofcom to shut the site down amid links to more than 130 UK deaths
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Families and survivors are calling for a public inquiry into the 65 missed chances to save lives from a pro-suicide forum.
Government must act now to prevent more lost lives.
Join our campaign here: mollyrosefoundation.beaconforms.com/form/90ddb8e4
Read the report: tinyurl.com/ycxwjx65
Our new report reveals one in two girls saw high risk suicide, self-harm or eating disorder content on social media in just one week.
These levels of harm are greater than previously understood and show the urgent need to strengthen the #OnlineSafetyAct tinyurl.com/4rc4kt6r
Meta’s Teen Accounts, with major shortcomings in 2/3 of its safety tools. Read the report here bit.ly/429JYtt @fairplayforkids @parents4sos @cyber4democracy #MetaFailsTeens
Nick Clegg was asked by @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
why there is no mention of Molly Russell in his book.
His answer was very telling.
Our new report Pervasive-by-design found TikTok and Instagram were recommending industrial levels of harmful suicide and self-harm content to teens just weeks before the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect.
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We’re looking for a Head of Education and Support.
This is a rare chance to design and deliver an education and support programme that offers children, parents and professionals high-quality online safety, mental health and suicide prevention programmes.
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Ofcom's new proposed measures will not address the current levels of harm or major new suicide and self-harm threats.
It's time for the Prime Minister to intervene and introduce a strengthened Online Safety Act that can tackle preventable harm head on.
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With 23 other charities and online safety experts we've written to @ofcom.bsky.social warning of the risks posed by Meta's move to automate 90% of its risk assessments.
You can read the letter here: mollyrosefoundation.org/wp-content/u...
There is a growth paradox at the heart of this government.
A stronger Online Safety Act could grow the economy by £4bn a year.
Read @andyburrows.bsky.social make the case for protecting young people and driving growth in @politicshome.bsky.social
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There is no reason for delay - @ofcom.bsky.social needs to get on and act immediately to take down this horrific suicide promotion website.
@mollyroseorg.bsky.social
has also warned of the need for this to happen without delay.
Front cover of the Looming Threat report with visual of Keir Starmer and Donald Trump discussing in the Oval Office.
🚨 New report: Looming Threat warns of serious risks from a full UK-US trade deal under Trump - from NHS data & medicines to tech regulation, online safety & food standards.
📢 The real danger lies in what comes next.
Read more 👉https://tinyurl.com/mtcsyk7b
Strong front pages today. It’s clear that Ofcom needs to move away from its ‘gamechanging’ PR claims and start engaging with the deep and substantive concerns being widely expressed by civil society. @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
I am dismayed to say that the regulator’s timid approach announced yesterday has left me more disappointed than ever.
We now need leadership to comprehensively tackle the preventable harm children will continue to face online.
Ian Russell in today's Telegraph.
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📻 Baroness Beeban Kidron @5rightsfound.bsky.social and Ian Russell @mollyroseorg.bsky.social on BBC R4's Woman's Hour now talking about @ofcom.bsky.social protection of children proposals. #onlinesafetyact www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Today you’ll hear a lot of PR about @ofcom.bsky.social ’s measures to prevent children being algorithmically recommended suicide and self-harm content. In the small print, Ofcom says these apparently sweeping measures… will cost tech firms £3,000 to £20k per annum. @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
The Molly Rose Foundation called on Ofcom to act “quickly and decisively” and shut down the site.
"We welcome Ofcom taking the first steps to clamp down on this horrendous site, which exists only to help vulnerable people end their lives."
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If Playbook’s reporting is correct, this is an appalling sell-out of children’s safety. How many young lives are we prepared to lose to dodge Trump’s tariffs? @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
New YouGov polling for MRF shows a majority of the public oppose Meta's rollback of safety measures and wants Government and Ofcom to Act.
Read more here: mollyrosefoundation.org/majority-of-...
Yesterday the Technology Secretary said he was ready to act decisively ‘where new threats emerge’.
Those threats have emerged. They require the Secretary of State’s rhetoric to be urgently matched with further action.
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We've sent a copy of Meta whistleblower Sarah-Wynn Williams' book Careless People to every MP after she was prevented from publicising it.
We want MPs to recognise the importance of being able to scrutinise the culture, practices and leadership of tech firms.
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'Adolescence has done an amazing service in facilitating the national conversation about the impact of extreme misogyny and the ways in which online content and online influencers are able to skew the views of teenagers and young boys' - CEO @andyburrows.bsky.social
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Our Chair Ian Russell has said that “further government dither and delay before improving digital protection is unacceptable”. He said “the life-threatening gaps in the Online Safety Act need to be fixed now”.
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Parents will judge the prime minister by how he responds to the preventable harm that is now happening on his watch. They will stand by him and cheer him on if he takes decisive action to ensure online safety for children.
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Tomorrow should be a watershed moment for online safety. Instead, it appears we are going backwards, Ian Russell writes in today’s Observer @mollyroseorg.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Worth reading in full Peter Kyle’s comments to @lbc.co.uk earlier today. A mix of vague assurances and an acceptance he’s planning a ‘piecemeal’ approach to fixing the #OnlineSafetyAct - hardly the decisive action that Ian Russell and other bereaved parents have called for @mollyroseorg.bsky.social
“I’m losing trust with Peter Kyle, and I know all the bereaved parents that I’ve connected with are losing trust.”
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✉️ We sent a letter on this in January to the Home Secretary & #DSIT Secretary of State - co-signed by @nspcc.bsky.social @counterhate.com @mollyroseorg.bsky.social & @samaritans.bsky.social & others - but received no response from either Dept. Here it is. 2/2 www.onlinesafetyact.net/uploads/osa-...
