organization MIND to understand the role that technology and social media has on the lives of young people," said Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, in a blog post

Earlier this year, Russell's father spoke to BBC News about the images of self-harm and suicide he found on his daughter's social media feeds.

According to the British news agency, her father said he believed Instagram "helped kill my daughter."

GET THE FOX NEWS APPChinese telecom company Transsion has not sold a single phone in China, but it beat out heavyweight competitors like Samsung and Apple to quietly dominate the African smartphone market, a CNN report revealed Wednesday.

Its success was an unusual corporate strategy designed from the ground up to seize African market share at the same time Chinese political influence spreads across the continent.

As CNN reported in a profile of Transsion and its flagship Tecno brand on Wednesday, the phones sold in Africa are actually optimized for snapping photos of people with dark complexions. They also allow users to easily switch between different cell phone networks depending on which one is cheaper in different regions – a capability that would seem odd to American and European customers but is so desirable