Holding platforms accountable for algorithms promoting self-harm is hard because research linking mental health and social media doesn’t establish causation (Eleanor Cummins/Wired)

Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
In a closely watched case, a UK coroner rules 14-year-old Molly Russell died by suicide after consuming extensive self-harm material on Instagram and Pinterest  —  Inquest told 14-year-old took her own life while suffering from depression and had interacted with harmful social media content

Charley Adams / BBC:
The UK plans to criminalize self-harm content in the updated Online Safety Bill, in line with suicide content, after the death of teenager Molly Russell in 2017  —  The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.

David Klepper / Associated Press:
CCDH: when researchers on TikTok in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia liked self-harm and eating disorder videos, the app recommended more similar content  —  TikTok’s algorithms are promoting videos about self-harm and eating disorders to vulnerable teens, according to a report published Wednesday …

Molly White / @molly0xfff:
Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…

Molly White / @molly0xfff:
Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…

Molly White / @molly0xfff:
Twitter has deleted @TwitterSafety’s tweets and a webpage detailing its new policy to prevent accounts from promoting other social media platforms  —  policy page and tweets announcing it are now gone. archive links for posterity: thread: https://web.archive.org/… policy page: https://web.archive.org/… https://twitter.com/…