Wednesday 29 May 2019

Self-harm images on Instagram associated with subsequent self-harm in viewers

Research has documented the widespread availability of graphic images of self-harm, such as cuttings, on the photo-sharing platform Instagram. After a British father said his 14-year-old daughter had viewed such explicit images on Instagram prior to her suicide, the platform announced that it would no longer allow such graphic images to appear.

* This article was originally published here