Ask.fm ‘thoughts’ with family for suicide inquest

Controversial social networking website Ask.fm has said its thoughts are with the family of teenager Erin Gallagher as they prepare for the inquest into her death by suicide after she suffered online bullying on the site.

Ask.fm ‘thoughts’ with family for suicide inquest

But the company, which relocated its headquarters to Ireland with promises to clean up its act after it was linked to a series of teen suicides around the world, would not say if it would send a representative to the hearing due to take place in Letterkenny on Wednesday.

It has also emerged that the Latvian-born company, which came to Ireland as Ask.fm Europe under new American ownership in 2014, has only had three employees here. The other four members of its seven-strong team were directors.

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