Badenoch reveals how her cousin died by suicide after 'excessive internet use'

Kemi Badenoch’s 20-year-old cousin took his own life after falling down an internet rabbit hole”, the Tory leader has said, opening up about how she worries a lot about social media”.

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In a deeply personal interview, Ms Badenoch said her young cousin died by suicide after struggling with excessive internet use.

She told the Daily Mail. “I have a family member who was in his 20s and went down an internet ‘rabbit hole’. He was exploring pro-mortalism and anti-natalism, and killed himself. I hadn’t heard of either of them. But I saw what excessive internet use can do.”

Pro-mortalism is a philosophical view that argues it would be ethical to kill all humanity to prevent further suffering, while anti-natalism is the belief that it is morally wrong or unjustifiable for people to have children.