Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have called on social media platforms to be given a total overhaul as part of a panel discussion in honour of World Mental Health Day.
The discussion, which was organised by the couple’s Archewell foundation, was part of a second annual mental health awareness festival hosted by a nonprofit called Project Healthy Minds.
During the talk, Harry and Meghan called for social media platforms to adopt better content-moderation policies, saying modifications need to be made to addictive apps that can harm young people's mental health.
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Meghan, who has talked about her own mental health challenges in the past, said the couple is focusing on what they can do behind the scenes to make social media use ‘safer, better and more positive.’ She confirmed that both her and Harry had spoken with tech executives about minimising the impact that social media has on people’s mental health.
‘People are getting hurt – and people, specifically children, are dying,’ she said.
Harry echoed his wife’s call to social media platforms: ‘Please stop sending children content you wouldn’t want your own children to see,’ he said. ‘I think it's a very simple request and its an easy fix.’
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