Online abuse is still rife, two years after presenter Caroline Flack’s death, her friend and fellow broadcaster Laura Whitmore has said., Whitmore said not much had changed since Flack took her own life in February 2020. The presenter died following her arrest on charges of assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton, which led to intense public and media scrutiny., said: “I think there’s still a lot of anger in the world. And I think the press still tends to prefer to go with a negative headline.
The thought of people handing out via social media deeply hurtful personal criticism to young women without knowing them and never having met them is deeply saddening.