In January 2019, Mr. Russell published Molly’s story. She was furious that his little daughter could easily see such harrowing content, and was convinced it played a role in her death. BBC TV interview The result was a front-page story across newsstands in the UK.
Television director Russell urged coroners reviewing Morey’s case to look beyond what is often a routine process and explore the role of social media. Walker agreed after seeing a sample of her media history on Molly’s social.
As a result, years of effort were required to access Molly’s social media data. Her family did not know her iPhone passcode, but London police were able to bypass it and extract her 30,000 pages of material. After a long battle, Meta agreed to serve over 16,000 pages of her from her Instagram. Merry Varney, an attorney at Leigh Day Law Firm who worked on the case through a legal aid program, said it took her more than 1,000 hours to verify the contents.
What they found out was that Molly was living a double life. was.
Six months before Molly died, she shared, liked, and saved 16,300 pieces of content on Instagram. About 2,100 of those posts, or about 12 per day for her, related to suicide, self-harm, and depression, according to data Mehta disclosed to her family. Many of the accounts she interacted with were dedicated to sharing only depressive and suicidal material, often using hashtags that linked to other explicit content.
Many posts glorified internal conflicts, masked emotional duress, and told others, “I’m fine.” Molly said she liked and saved graphic depictions of her suicide and self-harm just after 3 a.m., according to her Instagram usage timeline.