5 Mar 2024 Isabella Shere · Prevention of Future Deaths report Inner South London
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Concerns raised 6 Related-question recommendations encouraging further consumption of the material View source Pop-up question functionality detracting from users appreciating the seriousness of the subject matter View source Upvoting functionality detracting from users appreciating the seriousness of the subject matter View source Question-following functionality encouraging further consumption of the material View source Insufficient monitoring and moderation of question-and-answer content View source Failure to restrict children’s access to content without age verification View source See 3 more concerns
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Isabella Shere · Prevention of Future Deaths report
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Isabella Shere died at home in Lewisham, London, on 2 February 2023, aged 14. The inquest concluded that her death was suicide, with the medical cause recorded as asphyxia caused by hanging. The concerns included the availability and accessibility of information relating to methods of ending life on Quora, related content and user-engagement features encouraging further consumption, and insufficient monitoring or moderation.
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PFD Monitor interpretation Related-question recommendations encouraging further consumption of the material
Wider context from the report “(4) When viewing content ████████, a list of related questions is displayed, suggesting further similar content to users and encouraging further consumption of this material .
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Quora; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Pop-up question functionality detracting from users appreciating the seriousness of the subject matter
Wider context from the report “(6) There is an upvoting function which allows users to vote on the most useful answers to questions ████████. There is pop up question which can appear which asks ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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████████ Both of these functions detract from user appreciating the seriousness of the subject matter that is being consumed.
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Quora; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Upvoting functionality detracting from users appreciating the seriousness of the subject matter
Wider context from the report “(6) There is an upvoting function which allows users to vote on the most useful answers to questions ████████ . There is pop up question which can appear which asks ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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████████ Both of these functions detract from user appreciating the seriousness of the subject matter that is being consumed.
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Quora; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Question-following functionality encouraging further consumption of the material
Wider context from the report “(5) There is a function to follow questions ████████████████████████ encouraging further consumption of this material .
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Quora; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Insufficient monitoring and moderation of question-and-answer content
Wider context from the report “(7) There is not sufficient monitoring and/or moderation of the content of questions/answers in accordance with Quora’s own platform policies. ████████
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How this individual concern was interpreted PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Quora; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation Failure to restrict children’s access to content without age verification
Wider context from the report “(3) Children are able to access the site through search engines without being required to create an account and access content ████████ without being asked if they are an adult or being required to input their date of birth .
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