The teenage mother of Briana Gay said she does not believe that social media companies “make life before profit”.
Esther Gay in the screening of the new ITV documentary film, Briana: The story of Mother was talking about the death of 16 -year -old Briana, who was killed by Scarlett Jenkinson’s classmate and friend Eddie Retcliffe.
Jenkinson and Ratcliffe, both at the time of the 15 -year -old murder, deceived Briana in the park in Eshiere, and on February 11, 2023, 28 times with a knife.
The 75 -minute film celebrates Briana’s life and conducts interviews with three of her friends, describing the school girl as kind, vague and funny. He also examines his death and online safety issues.
Briana, who had thousands of Tikutok followers, struggled with their mental health, which became worse by accessing the content of eating and self -harm in X.
Since the age of 14, one of his killers, Jenkinson, enjoyed watching real murder and torture movies on the Dark Web, became an imaginary murder and created an interest in serial killers.
In a speech in West London, Ms. Guy said one of the reasons she had chosen to participate in the document was “receiving a response” from social media companies about safety.
“At this point, I really don’t believe that no social media company puts life before profit,” he said.
“She supports the ban on social media under 16,” said Ms. Guy said about her campaign on online safety and trolving.
“This is an absolute stubbornness,” he added.
“Even if I interview, for example, and try not to look at the comments, but I never can help myself, and I look at the comments, and you will see people who say about my child, try to tell me what my child is, and also really the terrible statements,” he said.
“And it is also mentioned in this documentary, that when you report things, support is not there.”
“I have reported a lot of comments, and I always get the answer that they haven’t done anything wrong, this is not something they can destroy and our children have access to comments,” he said.
“No matter how much love and compassion you give to your child when you bring them, and how much empathy you can teach them, they go online and they see a way that other people talk about other people, and they may think that’s right,” he said.
“And this is not even the dangerous challenges that young people are losing their lives because of the patient challenges that people are uploading, abusing, hatred, misunderstanding, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.”
Ms. Gay has already met with Prime Minister Sir Kiester and her predecessor, Rashi Sonak to talk about the matter and has criticized the online safety law and says she’s not going enough.
He has campaigns for age restrictions on using smartphones, more accurate control of social media programs, more difficult actions about knives, and school mindsets.
When traveling to the United States, the documentary follows Ms. Guy and meets with former director of engineering at Meta’s social media giant Arturo Bijar, who testified before Congress on child safety on the company’s operating systems.
He tells him that people are “defenseless” against harmful algorithms.
The film also shows Cheshire police officers, talking about investigations into Briana’s murder, and interview videos of both killers, who were caught in 28 hours.
Briana: Mother’s story is broadcast on Thursday, March 27 at 9pm on ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV.
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