{"id":6771,"date":"2019-01-26T17:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter\/"},"modified":"2019-01-26T17:26:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T17:26:36","slug":"instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/instagram-helped-kill-my-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram &#8216;helped kill my daughter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Molly&#8217;s father Ian says he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter&#8217;s death. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Instagram said it &#8220;does not allow content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or suicide and will remove content of this kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UK government is urging social media companies to take more responsibility for harmful online content which illustrates and promotes methods of suicide and self-harm. <\/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<p><i>Reporter: Angus Crawford.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-46966009\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017. When her family looked into her Instagram account they found distressing material about depression and suicide. Molly&#8217;s father Ian says he believes Instagram is partly responsible for his daughter&#8217;s death. In a statement, Instagram said it &#8220;does not allow content that promotes or glorifies self-harm or &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6771","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\/6771","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=6771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}