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Molly vs the Machines

In 2017, fourteen-year-old Molly Russell took her own life after exposure to harmful online content. The film examines how digital platforms and their algorithms endanger mental health and democracy.

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In 2017, Molly Russell, aged fourteen, took her own life after being exposed to harmful online content. Her father subsequently embarked on a five-year legal battle to establish the responsibility of digital platforms in his daughter’s death. Through intimate interviews with the family, reconstructed courtroom scenes, and unprecedented access to whistle-blowers within the technology industry, the film reveals how platforms designed to connect us had become harmful environments for a vulnerable teenager - and how this tragedy ultimately led her father to launch a campaign demanding safer digital spaces.

Dates and times

Thursday 12 March 2026

Event location

Location name
Cinémas du Grütli
Address
Rue du Général-DUFOUR 16, 1204 Genève - 1205 Genève
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Format
Online

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Proposed by
FIFDH
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