Meta and Pinterest executives must fly in from the US to attend the teen's inquest, a coroner rules.
A coroner has ruled that tech giant Meta must send a senior executive from the US to give evidence at the inquest into the death of Molly Russell.Meta, which owns Instagram, argued at a pre-inquest review that evidence should be given via video link from America.Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC, counsel for Meta, said head of health and wellbeing policy Elizabeth Lagone would require "significant travel and time in London" to attend in person.
Pinterest also argued one of its executives could not travel to London due to an important business meeting. He continued "what we have here is two Irish corporations who have chosen to field witnesses based in the US".
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