Vlad Nikolin-Caisley died after swallowing poison he bought online A pro-suicide forum is being investigated by Ofcom in the first inquiry of its kind under new laws. The website, which is based ...

Ofcom has ramped up its probe into an online suicide forum after bereaved families and survivors said they were “dismayed and appalled” by its lack of action. After mounting pressure from campaigners, ...

swiftly remove illegal content; implement effective moderation and reporting systems; test and adapt algorithms to prevent the promotion of harmful material; and provide clear user protections in ...

London — The British government's broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced Wednesday that it is investigating an online suicide forum reportedly linked to 50 deaths in the U.K. Ofcom said it was using ...

David Parfett’s son Tom was dying while a group of people from around the world not only did nothing to help him, they egged him on. He was live-blogging his own death on a suicide forum after ...

Ofcom is pursuing its investigation into a suicide forum it previously paused as the forum implemented IP-based blocking for UK users. On 1 July 2025, the forum implemented a block to restrict users ...

Bereaved families are calling for a public inquiry over “repeated failures” by the government and online harms regulator Ofcom to effectively deal with a “nihilistic” suicide forum. According to a ...

An online pro-suicide forum that blocked UK users later became available again under a different domain name, a regulator has said. The US-administered website agreed to impose the block on 1 July but ...

Bereaved families have called for a pro-suicide forum linked to dozens of deaths across the UK - including eight in Greater Manchester - to be taken down. It comes as a report by the Molly Rose ...

When my sister Aimee died, our family had never felt so alone. But sadly, we quickly realised we weren’t alone – so many others had died in a similar way. Aimee was 21 when she took her life using a ...

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