Mom who lost daughter, 15, to suicide after online bullying urges UN General Assembly to …

A heartbroken mom who lost her 15-year-old daughter to suicide after cruel online bullying urged world leaders to support legislation banning kids’ use of social media during a UN General Assembly in Manhattan Wednesday. Emma Mason, 52, of Sydney, described her daughter Tilly’s torment and tragic death while speaking in support of laws like the one Australia passed last year, requiring social media users to be at least 16 years old. “She climbed on top of the backyard tree house. She slipped the noose around her neck,” Mason told the assembly in tears. “And social media played a direct role in her death.” Emma Mason described her daughter Tilly’s online bullying while speaking in support of laws like the one Australia passed last year, requiring social media users to be at least 16 years old. 60 Minutes/Channel 9 Tilly hanged herself in February 2022 after a classmate circulated a doctored photo of her naked on Snapchat and others launched a vicious campaign on Facebook, urging her to take her own life, said Mason, who spoke at the assembly, along with Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. “Tilly died from a thousand cuts that occurred over the course of her short life,”
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