Instagram to ban graphic self-harm images after suicide of school girl Molly Russell

Instagram has committed to remove all images of graphic self-harm, the platform's boss has said. The move comes amid intense criticism of the Facebook-owned service, which has been accused of not doing enough to removes posts that glorify self-harm and suicide in the wake of the death of schoolgirl Molly Russell. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri said the company had previously allowed people to share graphic images of self-harm. But it will be changing its policy to ban those posts as well as looking to find and remove posts. "Historically, we have allowed content related to self-harm that's'admission' because people sometimes need to tell their story – but we haven't allowed anything that promoted self-harm," he told the BBC. "But, moving forward, we're going to change our policy to not allow any graphic images of self-harm."