Opinion

My daughter was driven to suicide by social media. It’s time for Facebook to stop monetizing misery.

Ian Russell is the founder of the Molly Rose Foundation.

The evening of Nov. 20, 2017, was perfectly ordinary: Our family sat watching reality TV and laughing together before heading to our bedrooms and saying our usual “see you tomorrow morning” to each other.

Later that night, alone in her room, my 14-year-old daughter Molly connected to the Internet one last time — including logging on to Instagram, where she’d been pushed into a rabbit hole of depressive content — and then took her own life.