The parents of a California teenager who died by suicide after watching a video simulating a hanging on Instagram have sued the platform's parent company, Meta.
Journalist Leighton Woodhouse believes social media has become one big social status competition that has gone off the rails and bled its way into the real world.
Sharyn Alfonsi about the night in August 2020 he went to check on his 14-year-old daughter, Englyn Roberts, after receiving a text from a parent of one of Englyn's friends expressing concern and suggesting they check on her. "There was a video," Toney explained."And that video was a lady on Instagram pretending to hang herself, and that's ultimately what our child did. You ask yourself, ‘How did she come up with this idea?’ And then when I did the research, there it was. She saw it on Instagram. It was on her phone."Englyn’s parents say the video was still circulating on Instagram with around 1,500 views a year and a half after her death before being taken down in December 2021.
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