The suicide on 7 February 2026 of Princess Dickson, a social influencer’s sixteen year old daughter who was subject to “years of online abuse and bullying on Tattle Life” brought into renewed focus the responsibilities of online forums to ensure that the creation and dissemination of information about identifiable individuals, especially by “anonymous strangers”, is lawful. Continue reading
Nestled within a corner of the internet, a new website was created in 2017. It was to be similar to a celebrity forum, but with one key difference. Rather than being a space for fans to celebrate those within the public eye, it was a space to attack them. Tattle Life would expressly target those who its posters had decreed had “choose[n] to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain”. 
