{"id":6638,"date":"2019-01-23T17:56:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/instagram-boss-responds-to-suicide-claims\/"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:56:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:56:19","slug":"instagram-boss-responds-to-suicide-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/instagram-boss-responds-to-suicide-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram boss responds to suicide claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Facebook, which owns social media site Instagram, says the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell was a &#8220;devastating event&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Hatch told the BBC&#8217;s Media Editor Amol Rajan that he was &#8220;deeply upset&#8221;, after Molly&#8217;s father said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-46966009\/instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter\" class=\"story-body__link\"> he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter&#8217;s death.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Hatch said Instagram was constantly reviewing its polices regarding images about depression and suicide, but experts advised the company that allowing those topics could help people feel supported.<\/p>\n<p><i>If you\u2019ve been affected by <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/2NfvF9kvC5N1nFllK9XzBWS\/information-and-support-self-harm\" class=\"story-body__link\">self-harm<\/a><i>, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/2DRkg4JC7SLT3B7hlrn6DKN\/information-and-support-eating-disorders\" class=\"story-body__link\">eating disorders<\/a><i> or <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/4WLs5NlwrySXJR2n8Snszdg\/emotional-distress-information-and-support\" class=\"story-body__link\">emotional distress<\/a><i>, help and support is available via the <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/actionline\" class=\"story-body__link\">BBC Action Line<\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-46979461\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, which owns social media site Instagram, says the death of 14-year-old Molly Russell was a &#8220;devastating event&#8221;. Steve Hatch told the BBC&#8217;s Media Editor Amol Rajan that he was &#8220;deeply upset&#8221;, after Molly&#8217;s father said he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter&#8217;s death. Mr Hatch said Instagram was constantly reviewing its polices &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}