Nearly half of UK girls saw harmful social media content in a week, research shows

Nearly half of girls and a third of all teenagers saw suicide, self-harm and eating disorder content on social media in a week, a study shows. The Molly Rose Foundation (MRF) research found that 47% of girls aged 13 to 17 encountered high-risk content during a seven-day period. Only slightly fewer teens are seeing harmful content now (34%) than just before new safety measures came into force last summer (37%), the study found. …