Prince Harry says

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, said that “not being done enough” about social networks damage can cause children, since it appeared in the presentation of a monument in New York City dedicated to young people who, according to those who have died for it, reported the News themezone BBC News network. Harry attended the event with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.

“The easiest thing to say is to keep their children away from social networks” to protect them, Harry said.

The monument, which will be open for 24 hours, is composed of 50 smartphones that show an image of a child that the organizers say it lost their lives due to social networks, the BBC reported.

Prince Harry and Meghan They have been supporting families who say that social networks played a role in the death of their children, and have supported calls so that technological companies share information from those children’s phones with parents.

“It is a universal truth that our children are damaged by what is happening online,” said Meghan. “I think that for those who choose to be online and be on social networks, as adults too, that we can set the example and really put the rather and joy in the world as we can.”

Several families from the United Kingdom traveled to New York to request better protections for children from technological companies. Some of them participated in a separate protest outside the finishing offices.

Among those families was Ellen Roome, the mother of a 14 -year -old, Jools, who died in 2022. Roome believes that it happened after an online challenge went wrong, and that her social media accounts could have evidence, BBC reported. An investigation found that Jools died for suicide.

Meta said that he had recently introduced special accounts for adolescents with improved protections. “We believe that adolescents deserve protections consisting of all the different applications they use, not only our platforms,” ​​target in a statement to the BBC.

“We are grateful that our children are too young to be on social networks at this time,” said Harry on Thursday. Harry and Meghan’s children, Bow and Lilibetthey are 5 and 3.

“One of the reasons we are doing this is because we, collectively with all these parents, we want to make sure that things change, right? So that no more parents and no more children are lost to social networks. It is unacceptable. It is wrong. It is no longer a secret. And yet these companies are given this power to be able to hide the truth of the parents about why their son took their lives,” said Harry.

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