By Tony Connelly

The debate over social media regulation and user safety has come to the forefront of global news after a teenage girl live streamed her own suicide on Periscope.

Earlier this week a 19 year-old girl named Oceane used the popular live stream social media app to broadcast herself taking her own life when she reportedly jumped under a train at a station about 25 miles south of Paris.

The Twitter-owned app has since removed the video, and Twitter has issued a statement saying that it does not comment “on individual accounts”.

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Source: The Drum