2024-09-21 13:27:07

In her own words - Molly Russell's secret Twitter account

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By Angus Crawford

Molly Russell, who took her own life aged 14, had a Twitter account she kept secret - her family has told the BBC.

After her death, Molly became a household name - a photo of her in school uniform appeared across newspaper front pages - as her father became a prominent campaigner for stronger regulation of social media.

Ian Russell believes most of her time online had been spent on Instagram and Pinterest, where she viewed thousands of images concerning suicide and self harm.

Representatives of both companies will give evidence at her inquest, which has just opened in north London.

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Among other things, it will examine how social media algorithms recommend content and keep children online.

She spent much less time on Twitter - and the company is not involved in the inquest. But nevertheless, the time she spent on the platform is significant - because we can see Molly's own thoughts and feelings, written and composed as tweets, and how complex and nuanced a teenager's mental health can be.

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The Met Police forensically examined Molly's phone in preparation. Officers handed over tens of thousands of pages of material to the Russell family's legal team, including details of the previously-unknown Twitter account.

The account revealed that for a year, Molly expressed her state of mind through a series of tweets and retweets.

The name she chose for her Twitter handle was Idfc_nomore, which Ian thinks meant, I don't care no more, with an expletive in the middle.

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