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Molly Russell’s father warns PM that UK ‘going backwards’ on online safety

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Ian Russell , the father of a 14-year-old girl who killed herself after viewing harmful content on social media, wrote to Keir Starmer .

He said the regulator Ofcom ’s implementation of the Online Safety Act has been a “disaster” Russell said unless there are changes to the legislation, “the streams of life-sucking content seen by children will soon become torrents: a digital disaster”.

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