Prince Harry Asked Social Media Bosses Why They Would Build Something They Know Will Harm Someone Else’s Child

Instagram Facebook Facebook Twitter Twitter Amazon TikTok TikTok Thought Catalog Diamond Mark Camera Collective World FlagLink Loading Arrow Pointing Down Skip to content Prince Harry asked social media executives why they would build something they know will harm another family’s child, speaking at the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, November 10. He urged social media companies to build child safety into their products before children ever use them.

He challenged executives over the risks they expose other families to, saying many keep their own children off social media because they know the dangers.

+2view galleryAt the European Parliament in Brussels, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, takes part in the Lost Screen Memorial opening on November 10, 2026. Photo by Andreas Rentz / Getty Images. Harry, 42, and Meghan have 2 children: Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5. In his address, he spoke about standing alongside parents whose children had died after suffering online harm, including Sandra, Megan and Sewell, whom he and Meghan had joined in New York, Los Angeles, Geneva and Brussels.

Harry questioned why protecting children becomes so complicated. He also praised technology’s ability to solve problems.

+2view gallery “My approach to life, and to the value of it, has perhaps unsurprisingly always been about… preventing harm before it happens, rather than waiting for tragedy before deciding something must change,” he said.

During a panel discussion after the address, Harry called social media’s addictive pull “brainwashing on an extraordinary scale.” He asked executives: “So why would you create something that you know is going to harm someone else’s child?”

He closed with a call for safeguards to be built into the technology.

“I will finish by saying that this whole mission has to be about safety by design. By the time that it’s on the phone, in an app, in a kid’s hands, it’s already too late. We all know that.”

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