Molly Vs the Machines

Synopsis

In 2017, fourteen-year-old Molly Russell came home from school, finished her homework, and said goodnight to her family. A few hours later, she took her own life. Surrounded by a loving circle of family and friends, her death was a life-shattering mystery until her father, Ian, pieced together the final months of her life. He discovered that when Molly looked at her phone, social media algorithms dragged her into a dark spiral of harmful content. Molly Vs the Machines follows Ian’s heartbreaking quest for the truth, from a teenager’s suburban bedroom to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Co-written by Harvard professor Shoshana Zuboff, the film exposes the economic logic behind Big Tech and the devastating human cost of surveillance capitalism. Through intimate interviews and reconstructed courtroom scenes, this powerful documentary serves as a rallying cry for online safety and a reminder that the real power to change the digital landscape still remains in our hands.