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.
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
Eleanor Cummins / Wired:
Holding platforms accountable for algorithms promoting self-harm is hard because research linking mental health and social media doesn’t establish causation — A British court ruled that teenager Molly Russell died in part because of online content—but holding platforms accountable is complicated.
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
UK government says its Online Safety Bill will return to the parliament in December and will be expanded to criminalize nonconsensual “deepfake” pornography — Nonconsensual explicit images to be tackled in bill returning to parliament next month
Ellen Barry / New York Times:
A look at the research project tracking people at risk for suicide using data from smartphones and wearables to identify periods of high danger and intervene — A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors …
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 …
Washington Post:
A provision to bar TikTok from government devices was included in the US government’s $1.7T omnibus spending bill that is due for a vote this week — Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday included language in a must-pass spending bill that would, for the first time, ban federal employees …
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