23 August 2024
More than 700 people in the UK have posted on a pro-suicide website looking for someone to die with, a BBC investigation has found.
Tagged with self harm
15 December 2023
Parents of children who died in circumstances linked to social media and gaming have accused the government of "watering down" online safety laws.
20 November 2023
Hundreds of families are suing some of the world's biggest technology companies - who, they say, knowingly expose children to harmful products.
"I literally was trapped by addiction at age 12. And I did not get my life back for all of my teenage years."
Taylor Little's addiction was social media, an addiction that led to suicide attempts and years of depression.
25 February 2023
Due to the popularity of online gaming platform Roblox with children and young people under the age of 16, our online safety experts have released this Safeguarding Update about a collection of games trending within the platform. The games depict themes of isolation, cutting, and suicide with some including chatrooms where users engage in unmoderated discussions around hopelessness, depression, self-harm, and suicide.
27 November 2022
The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
Content that encourages someone to physically harm will be targeted in a new offence, making it illegal.
The government said the changes had been influenced by the case of Molly Russell - the 14-year-old who ended her life in November 2017.
29 September 2022
The children’s commissioner for England has said she fears there could be a repeat of the Molly Russell tragedy, after research showed almost half of children have seen harmful content online, including material promoting self-harm and suicide.
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