Molly vs the Machines

In 2017, Molly Russell, aged fourteen, took her own life after being exposed to harmful online content. Her father subsequently embarked on a five-year legal battle to establish the responsibility of digital platforms in his daughter’s death. Through intimate interviews with the family, reconstructed courtroom scenes, and unprecedented access to whistle-blowers within the technology industry, the film reveals how platforms designed to connect us had become harmful environments for a vulnerable teenager – and how this tragedy ultimately led her father to launch a campaign demanding safer digital spaces.