{"id":77984,"date":"2019-01-30T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/30\/social-media-urged-to-take-moment-to-reflect-after-girls-death\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T01:00:17","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:00:17","slug":"social-media-urged-to-take-moment-to-reflect-after-girls-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=77984","title":{"rendered":"Social media urged to take &#039;moment to reflect&#039; after girl&#039;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s commissioner for England writes open letter highlighting \u2018horrific\u2019 contentThe children\u2019s commissioner for England has accused social media companies such as Facebook and Snapchat of losing control of the content carried on their platforms, telling them that recent teen suicides should be a \u201cmoment of reflection\u201d for the way they operate.In an open letter to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, Pinterest and Snapchat, Anne Longfield said the suicide of 14-year-old Molly Russell has highlighted the \u201chorrific\u201d material that children were able to easily access online. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2019\/jan\/30\/social-media-urged-to-take-moment-to-reflect-after-girls-death\" target=\"_blank\">Social media urged to take &#039;moment to reflect&#039; after girl&#039;s death<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children\u2019s commissioner for England writes open letter highlighting \u2018horrific\u2019 contentThe children\u2019s commissioner for England has accused social media companies such as Facebook and Snapchat of losing control of the content carried on their platforms, telling them that recent teen suicides should be a \u201cmoment of reflection\u201d for the way they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}