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British ruling blames Instagram and Pinterest for a teen girl’s suicide

Oct 3, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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After a 14-year-old girl took her own life several years ago, both her parents and the public wondered how big of a role social media might have had in her suicide. According to coroner Andrew Walker: a big one!

Last week, Walker assessed the responsibility of social media in the suicide of yet another teenager. The girl reportedly watched and saved an enormous amount of content related to suicide and self-harm. According to Walker, the content that she liked or saved in the days prior to her death was “so disturbing” that even he found it “almost impossible to watch.”

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Instagram and Snapchat sued for addiction leading to teen boy’s suicide

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Apr 13, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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Another lawsuit has been filed against Snap Inc. and Meta and their impact on a teen’s mental health. The Social Media Victim Law Center sued the two companies over the “burgeoning mental health crisis” in children and teenagers in the U.S. In this particular case, the Snapchat and Facebook and Instagram parent companies have been sued over the suicide of a 17-year-old boy.

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Woman sues Instagram and Snapchat blaming them for her daughter’s suicide

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Jan 25, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 3 Comments
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A Connecticut woman has filed a lawsuit against Snap and Meta, Facebook and Instagram parent company. The woman claims that Snapchat and Instagram caused a strong addiction in her 11-year-old daughter that eventually led her to take her own life in July 2021.

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Lawmakers to Zuckerberg: Drop “Instagram for kids;” it’s making them suicidal

Sep 16, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Facebook’s controversial “Instagram for kids” got under the spotlight again. The company’s own internal report has shown that Instagram has been causing mental-health problems in teenagers, especially girls, including even suicidal thoughts. After the report has leaked, Democratic lawmakers have started calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg again to drop the project.

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Instagram expands ban on self-harm and suicide-related content

Oct 29, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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As a part of its efforts to create a safer and more pleasant environment for its users, Instagram has expanded the ban on self-harm and suicide-related content. From now on, the platform bans drawings, memes, and comics containing this kind of content. Bits from films or cartoons are also banned. And even images that don’t show self-harm or suicide directly, but are associated with it.

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Teenage girl takes her own life after Instagram poll results tell her to

May 16, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 16 Comments
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A 16-year-old girl in Malaysia took her own life on Tuesday after conducting an Instagram poll to decide whether she should live or die. Reportedly, 69% of people had voted for “die,” which reportedly prompted the teen to end her life.

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Teenager Hated His Selfies, So He Tried Ending His Life

Mar 26, 2014 by Maaz Khan 10 Comments
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“I was constantly in search of taking the perfect selfie and when I realized I couldn’t I wanted to die.”

19 year Danny Bowman said these words to a reporter for the Daily Mirror. According to the story, he spent ten hours a day taking about 200 snaps of himself with his iPhone. He would take restroom breaks from his classes to go and try taking pictures there. And then in December 2012, after so much dissatisfaction from how his pictures turned out, he took an overdose of meds and attempted suicide.

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