With all due respect to Esther Ghey who is supporting the social media ban for under-16s, access to social media wasn't the cause of Brianna Ghey's death.
It was the hatred that was allowed on those platforms that radicalised her killers.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c77yx1jpg1nt?
The teenage boy who bought the knife that was used to kill her, was also obsessing over horrific materials about death and murder he found on the dark web.
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