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Harry and Meghan Press Tech to Protect Kids at New York Mental Health Events

They announced an Archewell Parents Network partnership with Parents Together and highlighted research on harmful AI chatbot exchanges as they accepted Project Healthy Minds’ Humanitarians of the Year award.

Overview

  • Prince Harry warned that the digital world has fundamentally changed how young people experience reality, citing harms tied to comparison, harassment, misinformation and lost sleep and connection.
  • Meghan Markle said Archewell has met families devastated by social media–linked suicides and stressed that bereaved parents need peer communities alongside therapy.
  • At the World Mental Health Day Festival, Archewell hosted three panels on youth wellbeing in the digital age, with Harry urging a move from conversation to community action.
  • The couple formalized a tie-up between the Archewell Parents Network and Parents Together to expand parent-led support and advocacy on online safety.
  • Harry cited Parents Together findings that researchers posing as children encountered harmful AI chatbot interactions every five minutes, underscoring calls for stronger platform accountability.