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.

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.
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